Sustainable Paperwork! The road to circularity: PRESENTATION ONLY
Coos Wessels, CirTec, The Netherlands
(free)
- CellCap, direct extraction of marketable cellulose from the main stream of a STP (without additional pumping) and upgrading and valorisation of a recovered resource (by Cellvation, a sister company of CirTec).
It is all about toilet paper
A short market survey
✓ The world population uses nearly 30,000 trees every day in toilet paper. That means we use 10 million trees each year in toilet paper or 384 trees per user in his/her lifetime;
✓ Not all toilet paper ends in the toilet (61% of people use toilet paper for nose care, 17% use toilet paper to wipe up small spills, and 8% use toilet paper to remove makeup)
✓ About four billion people, or 70-75% of the world’s population, do not use toilet paper. Some people don’t use toilet paper because of a lack of trees in the region. Others don’t use toilet paper because they can’t afford it or there’s insufficient plumbing.
✓ Did you know that:
✓ We use an average of 8.6 sheets of toilet paper each trip to the bathroom an average of 57 sheets of toilet paper a day;
✓ On average, someone spends 50 minutes a week/43 hours a year on the toilet for number two;
✓ The average amount of time a toilet paper roll lasts in the most used bathroom of a house is 5 days;
✓ Also, There is a “right” and “wrong” way to hang a roll of toilet paper;
✓ 72% of people hang the toilet paper roll with the end of the paper roll going over the top, which is considered the “right” way. The other 18%, well, they just need to get with the program.
✓ Besides the effect of felling of trees 253,000 tons of chlorine and 1,792,528,700 m3 of water are used during manufacturing
