Toilet paper is expensive, and getting moreso everyday!! If you've noticed, the latest toilet paper roll width is now 3 7/8" wide... down from 4 1/4" of about 10 years ago. Prior to that, rolls were 4 1/2" wide. Furthermore, the cardboard core is now 1 3/4" diam., from the original 1 1/2" diam. Bottom line is, we're getting much less toilet paper and paying much more money... just like everything else.
So get a bidet. The world is running out of resources and the top companies just get to keep funneling in money because there’s monopolies and governments that don’t care.
@@nizumik88hi can I speak to you directly if you don’t mind I’m a young entrepreneur and I want to start investing in that and I would like a get some ideas
This is why you're never too young or old to learn. Things like this is fascinating to me. So we use trees and recycled paper. I can teach this to someone else one day. Thanks for the upload.🙂🙂🙂
I had to haul 4 of these from Kimberly Clark in Pennsylvania. So my driver manager told me, "You'll need a clean trailer." That's an understatement! I showed up with what I THOUGHT was a clean trailer. I ended up spending over a half hour with: push broom, dust mop and wet mop, then dry mop again. Then, after all that, I had to go around with a nail puller and remove a years worth of pallet nails that had been driven into the wood floor by a hundred+ forklifts. These rolls are so big and heavy, that only 4 fit, and I had to slide by tandems forward just to make the load on my rear truck axles legal (the max is 34,000 lbs. on those axles).😂 For non truck drivers. Sliding the trailer axles forward, shifts weight toward the trailer axles, which are also 34,000 pounds max. The front axle can have 12k, the rear truck axles can have 34k and the trailer axles also 34k, for a total max weight of 80k (without a special permit).
We all take for granted how everyday items are made. The machines used are quite impressive. It would be hard to live without these items. Thank goodness for smart people like the engineers who make these machines.
amazing how those massive rolls can feed and run the paper over other rolls and not break the paper. especially wet. we all know how it falls apart when wet .
The sheet does break as easily as you think, and save with the wires and belts that the sheet is transferred on. However there is a ton of hygiene that goes into making sure nothing comes into contact with the sheet during processing
Brings back fond memories of when I used to visit paper mills for IBM. I was a paper engineer then - yeah there really is such a thing - and I was in charge of specifying and quality assuring the paper that IBM bought to resell to their printer customers. In those old days, the IBM 3800 web fed electrophotographic printer that was used by large companies, such as insurance companies, was large, fast and expensive. But the dollar amount of the paper typically used by the machine in 9 months of operation equaled the cost of the printer. The printer was a "plain paper printer" meaning that it could (and often did) use ordinary, uncoated printing paper from any source.
Well after viewing this, I've acquired a totally different attitude towards my toilet paper and have decided to use it with all the respect that it deserves! 🤣
@@akimateru7980 Hey isn't it amazing that they even make some of this toilet paper with a picture of Joe Biden on each sheet! And apparently they are having a major problem keeping up with the production, as the demand is incredible! Wonder why so,so many people would use these???
I work at a pulp and paper producer. The smell you are referring is originated in the process of pulping - i.e. converting wood chips into pulp. The wood chips are cooked and mixed with water and chemicals that disintegrate the bonds found in the wood, resulting in pulp and some byproducts. The smell of those chemicals mixed with the black liquor that comes from wood is what usually produces some weird smells
Interesting. I used to work for Kruger tissues back in the 90's. All our paper came direct from Venezuela and we converted it, so I never saw that side of the manufacturing process!
Yes. Digesters. 1976 Pulp and Paper Engineering graduate here. I remember reading circa mid seventies they were making tissue paper at 60 mph, breaking the interstate speed limit at the time ! I wonder if they can make it faster now.
My step dad worked in a mill. Stank to high heavens but one whiff and im taken right back to my childhood... Much respect to the men and women running those machines ❤
I used to work in the paper industry. That paper machine is used to make all types of paper and can be refigured to do so. Some mills have multiple machines that are dedicated to making certain types of paper. Decades ago I worked for Crown Zellerback paper in their transportation and warehouse division. We had box’s of toilet paper coming out of our ass🤪😂😂👍. Our warehouse was full of it. Also rolled paper in rolls weighing several tons each. We also stored spare shaft spindles for the paper machines because they didn’t have room at the paper mills. The process of making paper hasn’t really changed from the original design by a guy in Germany around 1860 who came up with the design still used today, only the machines have gotten big and faster and computerized. I tell you if you have a problem with one of those paper machines by the time you realize it and hit the panic stop button you are up to your eyeballs in paper everywhere. The good thing is any bad end product you just gather it all up and put it in the decomposer and make new paper out of it. Even in the warehouse if paper products got damaged we just put it dumpster’s to hauled back to the paper mill to be recycled.
@@Alex-ft1df it probably was. I worked on the warehouse side of the company. We stored a lot of parts - rollers for the paper machines and they where big🤪😀👍
The whole country of Thailand don't use toilet paper, they use a duvet ( bottom squirter ) Wow , very refreshing, it also can be used to freshen up other parts down there.
I use the cheapest roughest toilet paper and I keep a water spray bottle next to my toilet. I gently mist the rough toilet paper and it's just a soft as Charmin !
That dryer roller weighs over 180 tons. The factory i help install had roles up to 15,000 lbs and used clamping forklifts to grab them and move them. Even stacking them . Everything about the operation is big . Including the super sized saw blades.
Since i was in the Philippines, my sister-in-law wonder why i always use toilet paper or tissue paper to hold the public door knobs, which is an ordinary thing for me, then 2020 when covid struck around the globe, they realize my little precautions. Until now i really "valued" toilet paper, and much more of realizing this "amazing" machines. Kudos to our Industrial Engineers and Chemists to make this product safe and very sustainable in our every day life. ☘hoping we plant more trees by replacing it for future generations 😊
So many people don't realize that pulpwood is a crop, like an apple orchard or a cornfield. Takes a few years like the orchard and is harvested like the corn, then replanted. Paper companies have done this for many decades. They also recycle a large percentage of the total usage (rework, sorted industrial and household waste paper, etc). Source: I work In the paper industry.
Virgin pulp is more typically manufactured in continuous digesters, not batch as described here. We forming and pressing sections shown here are typically used in flat paper manufacture such as printing and writing. Tissue typically is made either on a yankee dryer or transpiration dryer. Pressing is really counter productive to producing a bulky, absorbent tissue product therefore it is minimal in a tissue machine.
Thank you for such an informative video full of details on how one of the necessities of life are made. Most Americans use tools, products and all kinds of consumer products and take them for granted.
What do toilet paper and the Starship Enterprise have in common? They both are on their way to UR-ANUS to wipe out the Clinge-Ons!..........Ok, I'll show myself out!
great video! i really liked how you explained the process in detail. but honestly, i wonder if we’re over-relying on toilet paper. wouldn’t it be interesting if more people considered alternatives like bidets? just a thought!
Strange, the video says the wood used is crooked. None of the trees stripped are bent, each log is the same diameter and, there is no crooked wood anywhere.
great video, really informative! but honestly, i always thought there was more to the process than just rolling it up. like, isn't it a bit weird that we don't talk more about the environmental impact of paper production? it seems like something we should consider more seriously.
Toilet paper is considered a quintessential and necessary good in American life. At the very onset of the pandemic, consumers stocked up on toilet paper for months.
12/2023....I didn't realize for years, that the toilet paper I grew up with,....during the years 1953 to the late 1980s,....was being NARROWED, little by little, every couple of years. So rolls before the 80s were wider. This is in the USA. I'm guessing this was done to maximize profit, and perhaps use less paper. I found a vintage roll of TP, in my pantry, and was surprised how much wider it was. I saw an PBS/NPR special on the topic too.
@@Ariel-lol Not really. Various local citywide emergencies over the years, inspired me to stash some toilet paper. I had never opened packages of "vintage" TP. ......lol
It’s almost 2024 and yet we still haven’t invented semi-decent TP quality for bulk use/public restrooms….I know businesses need cheap product in large quantities but they really have us wiping with single-ply sandpaper in public toilets 😅
The recycled paperare use to make a tissue. A machine who called sorter is used to separate it from junk that can't be used in the production of toilet papers. after the junk located into the machine it's travel on the conveyor belt where the sorter removes rubbish, cardboard and plastic fully automatically. First a CIV removes larges refus and cardboard. Then the recycled is separated from the junk through the use of a near infrared sensors. As soon as the sensor detect a piece of cardboard or junk a blast of air sends its off the conveyor belt. This type of machine can sort 400 tons of recycled paper everyday. A recycled paper is put into a giant washing machine and passes through a 14 stations until the fiber can be used again for new paper. If that sound a lot of work that because it is but you will be surprised to know that such a hectic process is still more environmentally friendly than using wood. for pulp the washing machine breaks down the recycled paper into pulp which then passes through a SHIFF the is eliminate tiny particles of waste of pulp. After decomposition come fine cleaning. Fine cleaning using centrifugation to throw heavy waste particles such as sand or splinter towards the outer walls where they sink to the bottom . Finally the pulp is de-ink by washing it with soap, this makes the color particles in the ink attach themselves to the foam which is then them skimmed off. The washing process, produce a pulp that has a sludge like appearance to make this sludge more suited for paper production, it is treated with bleach and diluted with a lot of water. Now the factory has a hand-on pulp produced both through wood and recycled paper. It's finally time to make into a actual paper. The paper machine is 120 meter giant monstrosity that produces solid paper from pulp in four steps. The prepared pulp is fed onto a large mesh screen or belt call fourdrinier wire. As the pulp mixture along the wire, water drains through the screen leaving a layer of interwined fibers on top. The water removal process is facilitated by vacuum boxes and other drainage elements which help control the consistency of the pulp and the thickness of the paper. The wet paper sheet is then passed through the series of press rolls. These rolls is squeeze out more of water. Increasing the density of paper . The pressed sheet is now call WET WEB. And contains a significant amount of water the Wet Web is guided through a series of heated rollers or dying sections to remove the remaining water. The heat evaporates the water from wet Web leaving a continuous dry paper sheet. The paper sheet is still the somewhat incomplete in the sense that it has creases on it. These are removed with the help of ironing rollers incorporated into the paper machine . This long winded process surprisingly takes only 7 seconds in real time. That how fast a paper machine really is. The completed paper is wound around a dryer called Yankee Dryer. Next the paper is creped. A process that make its very soft and gives it a slightly wrinkles look. During creeping the paper is scraped off the Yankee Dryer with a metal blade.this make the sheet somewhat flexible but lowers their strengths and thickness so that they virtually disintegrated when wet. The paper which is produced at a speed over a mile a minute is then wound on jumbo reels that can weigh as much as 5 tons. How does a paper sheet end up becoming toilet paper. Well it's all happen inside the machine called toilet paper rollers. While it's not big as the paper machine at 80 meter long it's is still quite imposing and the produces about 500,000 rolls a day. Then different patern a printed on the paper depending on the brand . Micro embossing soon follows which give the toilet paper it's characteristics dotted texture. Micro embossing not only give toilet paper more volume but also make it soft and comfortable for consumers
This is a multi billion dollar global industry. Everyone alive needs to crap, and in most parts of the world people are using toilet paper. Toilet paper is not going to become obsolete any time soon. In fact it is a growing industry as population is growing. Buying shares of companies that manufacture and distribute toilet paper looks to be a worth while long term investment.
I often wonder why different rolls, in the same purchased package, have ways to start the roll working. Some are easy starters than others. What causes that?
06:53, the packaging process isn’t shown here but in this case, each pack uses up to 4 different channels of logs based on the pack sizes, hence the variation with rolls within the same pack.
Thank you. I thought it might be something like that. I appreciate your taking the time to answer my query. God bless and keep you, and yours, well and safe.@@jordhanc
The only company that was busy during covid lock down and will never go slow 😅😅
They will never slow down...not even a skip mark ! Bummer
@swcshorty dog not allowed ect
Dog not allowed ect
They will shut down😮 eventually, man is on a crash COURSE TO BECOME EXTINCT😢
You know Covid was man made in a US biozard 4 lab?
Toilet paper is expensive, and getting moreso everyday!! If you've noticed, the latest toilet paper roll width is now 3 7/8" wide... down from 4 1/4" of about 10 years ago. Prior to that, rolls were 4 1/2" wide. Furthermore, the cardboard core is now 1 3/4" diam., from the original 1 1/2" diam. Bottom line is, we're getting much less toilet paper and paying much more money... just like everything else.
I never noticed 😂
Smaller sheet count too I bet!!
So get a bidet. The world is running out of resources and the top companies just get to keep funneling in money because there’s monopolies and governments that don’t care.
Bidenomics
Soon the cores will be 3 miles wide, thank u Joey........
Amazing!!! The genius minds that invented those machines and to keep everything running smoothly. Unbelievable process!!! Great video 👍
I did this My whole life I worked in the paper Mills. Fascinating career interesting technology something that's slowly dying
@@nizumik88don't die as a disbeliever
Dog not allowed ect
@@nizumik88hi can I speak to you directly if you don’t mind
I’m a young entrepreneur and I want to start investing in that and I would like a get some ideas
yup - it's amazing what people can do - if we could only eliminate the evil side of mankind
This is why you're never too young or old to learn. Things like this is fascinating to me. So we use trees and recycled paper. I can teach this to someone else one day. Thanks for the upload.🙂🙂🙂
Bought a bidet 5 years ago and I use 90% less toilet paper. One of the best investments you can make
I’ve always been so astonished and impressed on how these machines are built to do all of these things.
and can save trees 👍
Gross
@@Carl_McMelvinwould you rather use gloves to touch something or use telekinesis?
@@Carl_McMelvinas long as you don’t drink from bidet it’s not gross at all.
An excellent use of modern technology. This video clip should be shown to School kids around the World. Very educational.
I had to haul 4 of these from Kimberly Clark in Pennsylvania. So my driver manager told me, "You'll need a clean trailer." That's an understatement! I showed up with what I THOUGHT was a clean trailer.
I ended up spending over a half hour with: push broom, dust mop and wet mop, then dry mop again. Then, after all that, I had to go around with a nail puller and remove a years worth of pallet nails that had been driven into the wood floor by a hundred+ forklifts.
These rolls are so big and heavy, that only 4 fit, and I had to slide by tandems forward just to make the load on my rear truck axles legal (the max is 34,000 lbs. on those axles).😂 For non truck drivers. Sliding the trailer axles forward, shifts weight toward the trailer axles, which are also 34,000 pounds max. The front axle can have 12k, the rear truck axles can have 34k and the trailer axles also 34k, for a total max weight of 80k (without a special permit).
We all take for granted how everyday items are made. The machines used are quite impressive. It would be hard to live without these items. Thank goodness for smart people like the engineers who make these machines.
Pretty easy to live without TP lol.
i couldnt tbh
Very educational 😊Thanks for sharing this video😊
amazing how those massive rolls can feed and run the paper over other rolls and not break the paper. especially wet. we all know how it falls apart when wet .
The sheet does break as easily as you think, and save with the wires and belts that the sheet is transferred on. However there is a ton of hygiene that goes into making sure nothing comes into contact with the sheet during processing
That’s some big-ass toilet paper rolls in the thumbnail
Brings back fond memories of when I used to visit paper mills for IBM. I was a paper engineer then - yeah there really is such a thing - and I was in charge of specifying and quality assuring the paper that IBM bought to resell to their printer customers. In those old days, the IBM 3800 web fed electrophotographic printer that was used by large companies, such as insurance companies, was large, fast and expensive. But the dollar amount of the paper typically used by the machine in 9 months of operation equaled the cost of the printer. The printer was a "plain paper printer" meaning that it could (and often did) use ordinary, uncoated printing paper from any source.
Hello Charl, how are you doing today
Well after viewing this, I've acquired a totally different attitude towards my toilet paper and have decided to use it with all the respect that it deserves! 🤣
You should have rather respected your body and personal hygiene by using water to wash your ass instead 😂😂😂😂
Use less squares after you defecate 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂 dead ass
@@akimateru7980 Hey isn't it amazing that they even make some of this toilet paper with a picture of Joe Biden on each sheet! And apparently they are having a major problem keeping up with the production, as the demand is incredible! Wonder why so,so many people would use these???
For sure!!
They never mentioned the smell it produces. I hate driving by our paper mills in Green Bay, they smell so bad
We converted 500 pound blocks of paper into the finished product There never was an unpleasant smell associated with that process.
I work at a pulp and paper producer. The smell you are referring is originated in the process of pulping - i.e. converting wood chips into pulp. The wood chips are cooked and mixed with water and chemicals that disintegrate the bonds found in the wood, resulting in pulp and some byproducts. The smell of those chemicals mixed with the black liquor that comes from wood is what usually produces some weird smells
Old Newspapers were the chosen option when my vintage were young and that’s all some red tops are worth.
Interesting. I used to work for Kruger tissues back in the 90's. All our paper came direct from Venezuela and we converted it, so I never saw that side of the manufacturing process!
They are NOT called decomposers but rather digesters, I work as an engineering consultant for pulp and paper
Correct. I winced when I heard decomposers. You'd think the producers of the video would have researched and corrected this flub.
Yes. Digesters. 1976 Pulp and Paper Engineering graduate here. I remember reading circa mid seventies they were making tissue paper at 60 mph, breaking the interstate speed limit at the time ! I wonder if they can make it faster now.
My step dad worked in a mill. Stank to high heavens but one whiff and im taken right back to my childhood... Much respect to the men and women running those machines ❤
So much compassion just for a clean but
I used to work in the paper industry. That paper machine is used to make all types of paper and can be refigured to do so. Some mills have multiple machines that are dedicated to making certain types of paper. Decades ago I worked for Crown Zellerback paper in their transportation and warehouse division. We had box’s of toilet paper coming out of our ass🤪😂😂👍. Our warehouse was full of it. Also rolled paper in rolls weighing several tons each. We also stored spare shaft spindles for the paper machines because they didn’t have room at the paper mills. The process of making paper hasn’t really changed from the original design by a guy in Germany around 1860 who came up with the design still used today, only the machines have gotten big and faster and computerized. I tell you if you have a problem with one of those paper machines by the time you realize it and hit the panic stop button you are up to your eyeballs in paper everywhere. The good thing is any bad end product you just gather it all up and put it in the decomposer and make new paper out of it. Even in the warehouse if paper products got damaged we just put it dumpster’s to hauled back to the paper mill to be recycled.
I bet that was noisy in there.
@@Alex-ft1df it probably was. I worked on the warehouse side of the company. We stored a lot of parts - rollers for the paper machines and they where big🤪😀👍
Wow, this was super interesting to read!
@@justalittleguy733 the paper industry is vary interesting. How it all
Works
The fourdrinier machine was invented by Nicholas Robert from France.
What an interesting job, a toilet paper tester 😂😂
He's the #2 guy lol 😂
The whole country of Thailand don't use toilet paper, they use a duvet ( bottom squirter ) Wow , very refreshing, it also can be used to freshen up other parts down there.
I hope to god they don't use a duvet, as that is a type of bed covering! I think you were going for bidet.
@@randystevens4054 Wipes on the bed sheet ?🤣🤣🤣
Many parts of the world use water in various forms, from BIDETS to water sprays.
My wife gets pissed when I use our duvet.
Yall deserve a raise id quit pulling up to the interview😂
From looking at the thumbnail for this video, you might be thinking, "Damn, toilet paper rolls are getting bigger every year!"
I use the cheapest roughest toilet paper and I keep a water spray bottle next to my toilet. I gently mist the rough toilet paper and it's just a soft as Charmin !
We don't need to know everything about you
Thats actually really clever . Thanks for that
I work at a paper mill,,very similar process
how much do you think the export price in large volume orders?
Remember there is 50% discount if only one side of the paper is used.
🤣😂😆
That dryer roller weighs over 180 tons. The factory i help install had roles up to 15,000 lbs and used clamping forklifts to grab them and move them. Even stacking them . Everything about the operation is big . Including the super sized saw blades.
Heavily depends on what the plant wants the size of the yankee to be. I’ve seen as low as 20 tons and the most common being 40 tons
I noticed the size of the cardboard increased. That is my reason for the tissue video search! Very informative, thank you!.
THATS ONE BUSINESS THAT WILL NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS WITH ALL THE 💩 GOING ON IN THIS WORLD😂
It's not a norm in Asia. We clean our asses with water.
@rizwanmahai
Why don't they make this " world wide instead?"
No more phone books.
T P companys got us 😮
Useful information thanks a lot.
Since i was in the Philippines, my sister-in-law wonder why i always use toilet paper or tissue paper to hold the public door knobs, which is an ordinary thing for me, then 2020 when covid struck around the globe, they realize my little precautions. Until now i really "valued" toilet paper, and much more of realizing this "amazing" machines. Kudos to our Industrial Engineers and Chemists to make this product safe and very sustainable in our every day life. ☘hoping we plant more trees by replacing it for future generations 😊
So many people don't realize that pulpwood is a crop, like an apple orchard or a cornfield. Takes a few years like the orchard and is harvested like the corn, then replanted. Paper companies have done this for many decades. They also recycle a large percentage of the total usage (rework, sorted industrial and household waste paper, etc).
Source: I work In the paper industry.
If you object to logging, try using plastic toilet paper.
Could use hemp but fat cats prefer greed than save the planet. Hypocrisy is of the charts
Virgin pulp is more typically manufactured in continuous digesters, not batch as described here. We forming and pressing sections shown here are typically used in flat paper manufacture such as printing and writing. Tissue typically is made either on a yankee dryer or transpiration dryer. Pressing is really counter productive to producing a bulky, absorbent tissue product therefore it is minimal in a tissue machine.
Great video for a late night toilet visit 😂
Thank you for such an informative video full of details on how one of the necessities of life are made. Most Americans use tools, products and all kinds of consumer products and take them for granted.
My mother in law needs one the rolls like the one at the beginning of this video
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What's the quickest way to get in touch with your inner self?
Single-ply toilet paper 😝
😂
What do toilet paper and the Starship Enterprise have in common?
They both are on their way to UR-ANUS to wipe out the Clinge-Ons!..........Ok, I'll show myself out!
Really great video!
great video! i really liked how you explained the process in detail. but honestly, i wonder if we’re over-relying on toilet paper. wouldn’t it be interesting if more people considered alternatives like bidets? just a thought!
I agree to just use the falling leaves. To process the toilet paper.
Whenever I think about toilet paper in thequarantine Imagine paper towels
The exact same process, just different formulas used to get the consistency of the paper
If only Sears & Roebucks was still in the catalogue business you could get your make your own TP for free!!!
Everybody please consider using _BAMBOO TOILET PAPER_ instead of traditional. So much more sustainable.
Has anyone said the thumbnail looks like mini men working on regular toilet paper??
Strange, the video says the wood used is crooked. None of the trees stripped are bent, each log is the same diameter and, there is no crooked wood anywhere.
It’s called stock footage. You just watched videos of timber harvesting. Doesn’t mean those logs were used for TP. 😂
Since nobody goes to the toilet in the USA, it should be called bathroom or restroom paper.
I go to the toilet. Relieving yourself in the bath is so messy.
I go to the toilet. Relieving yourself in the bath is so messy.
Well, glad we got to the bottom of that!
Those rolls are for giants!😵💫
Trump but size😂😢😮😅😊
How can you tell if someone uses a bidet? They’ll make sure to let you know 😀
Exactly! Like a vegan getting in your face
Only if you haven’t learned to not use toilet paper yet.
@@bryanw5951 Umm.....Don't think you get it
great video, really informative! but honestly, i always thought there was more to the process than just rolling it up. like, isn't it a bit weird that we don't talk more about the environmental impact of paper production? it seems like something we should consider more seriously.
I know some people that can use the five-ton rolls while they're on the toilet.
Must have been a woman. I've had girlfriends that used enough to rival "The Mummy". I don't think they appreciate plumbing problems the way men do
Great process! Thank you for the information your videos bring to everyone!
Many thanks for this excellent video !❤️🙏🌸
🎉🎉 wow! these machines are just incredible
Next video: how toilet paper is used
🤣😂😆
Not as daft as it sounds . Here in the uk Lidl own label toilet paper comes with instructions !
Bro who thought about doing all these different steps? The human mind is so amazing
Costco Kirkland had 500 sheets per roll, now it has 380 sheets per roll and the price went from $15.99 to an annoying $22.99 and it is not worth it.
22.99 a roll???
Amazing process
Toilet paper is considered a quintessential and necessary good in American life. At the very onset of the pandemic, consumers stocked up on toilet paper for months.
Since they use their bare hands in India, cost is no problem.
The amount of real trees humans consume each year is still staggering
I never know how the toilet paper was made until I watched this video .
Imagine it's 2020 and you're watching this😂
Great Video!
Back in the very early 80s, toilet paper packs came with stickers. I don’t know why they did that but I always liked getting the stickers.
12/2023....I didn't realize for years, that the toilet paper I grew up with,....during the years 1953 to the late 1980s,....was being NARROWED, little by little, every couple of years. So rolls before the 80s were wider. This is in the USA. I'm guessing this was done to maximize profit, and perhaps use less paper. I found a vintage roll of TP, in my pantry, and was surprised how much wider it was. I saw an PBS/NPR special on the topic too.
So you didn’t clean out your pantry for like 30 years? Huh😂
@@Ariel-lol Not really. Various local citywide emergencies over the years, inspired me to stash some toilet paper. I had never opened packages of "vintage" TP. ......lol
@@Davett53 LOL...."vintage" TP? I guess like neck ties, everything is cyclical. Wide TP might make a comeback? They could call it "Retro Rolls"
@@kendallevans4079Too funny!......Yes, bring back Retro Rolls!
100 rolls per year. That's one every three and a half days. Wow! I don't wanna meet those people.
It’s almost 2024 and yet we still haven’t invented semi-decent TP quality for bulk use/public restrooms….I know businesses need cheap product in large quantities but they really have us wiping with single-ply sandpaper in public toilets 😅
You are obviously living in the wrong country. The whole of Europe has wonderful huge rolls for public toilets. Multi ply and super soft.
My local supermarket chain puts tp rolls from damaged pkgs in their restrooms. Nice change from the cheapo stuff.
I am glad they made this process. I am almost out of Sears and Roebuck catalogs 😂
Imagine someone called you bad humans because you look/ grew different 😢
I don't care how much I use as long as it's clean 😮
That's right!
Get a handheld bidet. WAAAAAYYYYYYY cleaner. And saves tons of $$$. Installs in 5 minutes, super simple, no plumber needed.
The recycled paperare use to make a tissue. A machine who called sorter is used to separate it from junk that can't be used in the production of toilet papers. after the junk located into the machine it's travel on the conveyor belt where the sorter removes rubbish, cardboard and plastic fully automatically. First a CIV removes larges refus and cardboard. Then the recycled is separated from the junk through the use of a near infrared sensors. As soon as the sensor detect a piece of cardboard or junk a blast of air sends its off the conveyor belt. This type of machine can sort 400 tons of recycled paper everyday. A recycled paper is put into a giant washing machine and passes through a 14 stations until the fiber can be used again for new paper. If that sound a lot of work that because it is but you will be surprised to know that such a hectic process is still more environmentally friendly than using wood. for pulp the washing machine breaks down the recycled paper into pulp which then passes through a SHIFF the is eliminate tiny particles of waste of pulp. After decomposition come fine cleaning. Fine cleaning using centrifugation to throw heavy waste particles such as sand or splinter towards the outer walls where they sink to the bottom . Finally the pulp is de-ink by washing it with soap, this makes the color particles in the ink attach themselves to the foam which is then them skimmed off. The washing process, produce a pulp that has a sludge like appearance to make this sludge more suited for paper production, it is treated with bleach and diluted with a lot of water. Now the factory has a hand-on pulp produced both through wood and recycled paper. It's finally time to make into a actual paper. The paper machine is 120 meter giant monstrosity that produces solid paper from pulp in four steps. The prepared pulp is fed onto a large mesh screen or belt call fourdrinier wire. As the pulp mixture along the wire, water drains through the screen leaving a layer of interwined fibers on top. The water removal process is facilitated by vacuum boxes and other drainage elements which help control the consistency of the pulp and the thickness of the paper. The wet paper sheet is then passed through the series of press rolls. These rolls is squeeze out more of water. Increasing the density of paper . The pressed sheet is now call WET WEB. And contains a significant amount of water the Wet Web is guided through a series of heated rollers or dying sections to remove the remaining water. The heat evaporates the water from wet Web leaving a continuous dry paper sheet. The paper sheet is still the somewhat incomplete in the sense that it has creases on it. These are removed with the help of ironing rollers incorporated into the paper machine . This long winded process surprisingly takes only 7 seconds in real time. That how fast a paper machine really is. The completed paper is wound around a dryer called Yankee Dryer. Next the paper is creped. A process that make its very soft and gives it a slightly wrinkles look. During creeping the paper is scraped off the Yankee Dryer with a metal blade.this make the sheet somewhat flexible but lowers their strengths and thickness so that they virtually disintegrated when wet. The paper which is produced at a speed over a mile a minute is then wound on jumbo reels that can weigh as much as 5 tons. How does a paper sheet end up becoming toilet paper. Well it's all happen inside the machine called toilet paper rollers. While it's not big as the paper machine at 80 meter long it's is still quite imposing and the produces about 500,000 rolls a day. Then different patern a printed on the paper depending on the brand . Micro embossing soon follows which give the toilet paper it's characteristics dotted texture. Micro embossing not only give toilet paper more volume but also make it soft and comfortable for consumers
Just big enough for my mother-in-law.
😂😂😂 wtf
This is a multi billion dollar global industry. Everyone alive needs to crap, and in most parts of the world people are using toilet paper. Toilet paper is not going to become obsolete any time soon. In fact it is a growing industry as population is growing. Buying shares of companies that manufacture and distribute toilet paper looks to be a worth while long term investment.
um, you are DEAD WRONG DUDE. the USA is the ONLY place that uses TP... they are rich and wasteful!
@@RussellD11 So what does everyone else use?
Thanks for the information
Amazing
I've often sat there wondering how do they make toilet paper? Well, now I know. Amazing!
Now I wonder, what will I think about now?
Good luck with that 😅
Hello David, how are you doing today.
I love when i hear terms like "more environmentally friendly".
Where do these companies get their energy from?🤔🤔🤔
I now have respect for my toilet paper!
This was so interesting!
What a amacing job
It's true that way thanks 😊 🙏
Wow. stupendous!
Awesome!!
No way does one person use 100 tool a year!
I use less than one roll per month. Those numbers are rubbish.
@@dixondaviesHow? Do you just drag your butt across the lawn like Spot?
Right only women who do the wrap around the hand thing could do that lol
@@kathyyoung1774this is the best comment ever 😂😂😂 I was wondering how that worked also 🤣
I often wonder why different rolls, in the same purchased package, have ways to start the roll working. Some are easy starters than others. What causes that?
06:53, the packaging process isn’t shown here but in this case, each pack uses up to 4 different channels of logs based on the pack sizes, hence the variation with rolls within the same pack.
Thank you. I thought it might be something like that. I appreciate your taking the time to answer my query. God bless and keep you, and yours, well and safe.@@jordhanc
So amazing
These rolls are recyclable
Veri informative 👌 👍
If toilet paper gets any skinnier or any more expensive, I'm going to leaves. 🌳
Very interesting!
Fascinating film, but why the jangly background beat? Adds zilch except distraction and irritation.
I would enjoy hear the employee jokes that make toilet paper for a living😅
I bet they were so busy during covid.
Too many toilet roll sheets used block pipes underground!.
I bet even with rolls that big I’d reach over after a long visit and find an empty roll with nothing in sight 😂
The covid debacle of the 20s
Gave us a whole new appreciation for toilet paper
Rubber glove flannel warm water job done. 😊
These manufacturing jobs take highly skilled workers pushing buttons & pulling levers all day 🤦♂️