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Daily Archives: 15-February-2017
Daily Tree Consumption for Toilet Paper
I was reading an article on National Geographic when I spotted an interesting factoid about the impact of Toilet Paper (TP) world-wide tree consumption.
Toilet paper wipes out 27,000 trees a day.
Like many factoids, I doubt there is a way to actually measure this number – it can only be estimated. Thus, it is a prime candidate for a Fermi solution. Continue reading
Posted in General Mathematics, General Science
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