Used toilet paper is a hotbed of bacteria, should it be thrown into the toilet or garbage can?
Currently, more than half of the global population (4.2 billion people) lack safe sanitation facilities. Globally, at least 2 billion people use drinking water contaminated with feces.
Due to a lack of sanitation measures, nearly 800 children die every day. To prevent these deaths, it may only be necessary to have a clean toilet, with toilet paper becoming a very important part.
Although modern toilet paper was invented by Americans, it was actually Chinese who first thought of using paper to wipe their buttocks.
The earliest records of using paper to wipe dirt in China were recorded in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the third chapter of the Biography of the Yuan Dynasty, the wife of Emperor Yu of the Yuan Dynasty was extremely filial to her mother-in-law, serving her mother-in-law, Empress Zhao Ruishun (Empress Chabi). "She never left or left, even mixing toilet paper and wiping it with a face to make it soft and accessible."
In the 14th century, China began producing special toilet paper for royal use. At that time, the "Treasure Money Division", who was in charge of making thick and fine papyrus, would use fine paper for writing and printing books, and 30% of the coarse paper would be made into toilet paper.
This kind of toilet paper is made of broussonetia papyrifera bark and bamboo hemp. It is thick, soft, and fragrant. During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Treasure Banknote Department supplied 720000 pieces of toilet paper to Ying Tianfu every year. At that time, Westerners used wool or long fiber plants to take care of their buttocks.
In the early 1980s, when indoor flush toilets were just introduced, coarse straw paper, even newspapers, were still used in China, and this type of paper could easily form clumps in water. It is very unethical to throw newspapers into public bathrooms and block them. Not throwing used up paper into the sewers is also a basic quality of being a qualified citizen.
Paper can block the toilet, and someone will always say it's a pipe problem. In fact, except for those old cast iron pipes, which may suffer from corrosion in the pipe after a long time of use, resulting in a smaller inner diameter, and the possibility of clogging, there is no need to worry about this issue anymore.