FLUSH & GO, REVISITED

The flushable toilet roll I blogged about earlier, much beloved among the professional toilet visitors, has been selected by overwhelming majority (they say) as the most superfluous product of the year by Finnish Nature magazine (Suomen Luonto). The environmentalist fury that valuable recyclable cardboard, worth of four sheets of toilet paper, is lost every time a flushable toilet paper roll shell is flushed down the drain. The story doesn't tell, but the author would imagine, that the same opponents are equally furious every time an honest toilet visitor goes on conducting his/her business and flushes down the toilet an amount of toilet paper equivalent of 1-8 flushable toilet roll shells. I don't know about the furious opponents, but at least the author wouldn't stand the smell caused by the used toilet paper in the bin. So still convinced, that shitty paper goes down the toilet!

(only in Finnish: )
http://www.suomenluonto.fi/turhake/index.html

Freie Universität, Berlin

A quick review of toilet paper roll storaging at Freie Universität. The university has decided to save some money by using the toilet in a dual role as a storage and as a place to conduct your business. The way toilet paper rolls are stored reminds of my earlier encounter at Karstadt. I sure would prefer the prewarmed rolls above the radiator over the ones on dirty floor.

Too bad none of the rolls had made it way to the holder.

FLUSH & GO, HELSINKI

This time I want to show you a new toilet paper roll concept by a Finnish toilet paper, napkin and paper towel producer Lotus. The idea of the new concept is, that the shell of the paper roll is made of same kind of degradable paper as the toilet paper itself and as such can be flushed down the toilet. To me it seems like a cool concept as we all have experienced the piling up of old toilet paper shells at the toilet, when one is too lazy to put them into trash bin. I'm also excited, because Lotus Embo is one of my favorite toilet paper brands, and improved features warm the heart of a long-time user.

I even came across this massive advertisement in the middle of Helsinki, where a whole tram stop was playing the role as a huge add for the new concept.

Some dedicated toilet visitors have tested and proved the concept for our delight as seen below: