Is there an ecologically sound alternative to toilet paper?

Y!A wants to put this in the Vegan section. Who am I to question their wisdom?

Do your neighbors have a pool?

you can do as they do in most underdeveloped countries -- use water and your left hand. Recycled toilet paper still has the same end effect -- sewage dumped into some open body of water. Note that toilet paper cannot be recycled (it's made of recycled paper products other than t.p. obviously).

My vegan hippy friend uses no tp or paper towels or tissues. for tp- she has reusable wipies she calls them. they are cloths she made and she keeps a can next to the toilet. she washes them daily. for papertowels she keeps a stack of small terry towels by her sink(i couldn't fathem her wipies but adapted this one). for tissues the ole fashioned hankie. yes i can't believe the things she comes up with lol Ah well. she even makes her own soaps.

cloth. wash daily and after poo. just don't get sick

I just use my neighbor's hand to do my dirty work. He's a good sport about it too.

You can buy recycled toilet paper - it's made of recycled paper products.

I've heard they use to use leaves, pine cones, and corncobs in the olden days. (Ouch!)

Pick out used napkins out of the dumpster behind McDonalds. Give them a second life. (Try to avoid the extra greasy ones)

only need some clever engineer to design such a thing. i am sure a small device that squirts warm water and blows warm air could be made and mass produced that would work fine for the vast majority of the world. it would likely shut down the huge toilet paper industry. newspapers, magazines and toilet paper would become interesting relics for museums.

why haven't they. same reason the auto industry and petroleum industry hate small, reliable, inexpensive electric vehicles to handle most daily trips. the answers are always the same. basic economics and laws influenced by powerful industry that influence politicians. they short-circuit the basic supply-demand economics.

i want a cheap, reliable, little electric vehicle that doesn't use gasoline, diesel, coal, etc. i want trains and ships to move heavy bulk goods and such, and i want only fast trains to handle most of the transportation between major cities. most everybody wants change but they just don't demand!

Probably not

Our household isn't ready to give up this luxury, but we do cut down on packaging by using the 1000-sheets-per-roll variety.

Yes there certainly is a most excellent substitute, in fact several. First and probably cheapest is Humpbacked whale hide which has the texture of gravel encrusted silk and then second is reticulated python skin which has the obvious advantage of being easy to put on a roll.

Ergh! I ain't using it again and again.

hemp toilet paper, totally biodegradable

When I was in the Army I know they told us to use whatever... leaves, moss, just not pine cones! LMAO. Sorry, that's a huge inside joke from my unit in Fort Jackson.

If you really want to, I guess you can gather leaves and stuff from outside, use it and then make a compost heap in back for it, but that sounds complicated and kind of gross. If you really want to be very natural about it though, you can do that. And I suppose just washing yourself with water and your hands, but that's also kind of weird. Maybe getting a bidet will take care of that?

What I do is buy recycled TP. You can try to buy it too, I know that a lot of chain stores carry TP made from recycled materials... that's the type I buy, it's only a few cents more but I can spare the change... it'd just end up stuck in a couch cushion or in my car's tollway change box.

i saw a toilet once that one of its features was its ability to re-cycle toilet paper. i thought, huh? how does it do this? is there a little horton hears a who plant inside, where is the dryer? who wants to reuse re-cycled toilet paper? still makes no sense. i know it doesn't answer your question unless you find that toilet.

Yes, it was invented years ago.........the bidet

Corn cobs

people can do like people on the range they used leaves.and bury them ,I don't know i will have to go green another way as i don;t want to play no paper for no potty.

I believe most paper products that are recycled become toilet paper...Umm only use two sheets?

Human excrement is about as useless as can be. I think our evolutionary path is in the direction of herbivore. I am glad to have lived in the time of 500 sausages. Ta...prrfffuuumphhh!

if you always keep a wild bear behind you and train him to growl just after you go. the stuff will just fall off. every man for himself.