Do you know that the super-soft toilet papers that you use in your luxury toilets are disastrous for Environment? Well, the environmentalists, in the Guardian UK, reported that extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply toilet papers that are prepared from virgin forest are more hazardous than gas-guzzlers, fast food or McMansions.

According to Greenpeace campaigners, the U.S. fondness for extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply luxury toilet papers is environmentally dangerous; the producers of these toilet papers are environmentally irresponsible.

The New York Times reported that “millions of trees are harvested throughout the Americas – including rare old-growth forests in Canada – to sustain the United States’ obsession with quilted, ultra-soft, multi-ply toilet paper”.

The paper reported that “toilet paper makers can produce products from recycled materials at a similar cost, but the fiber taken from standing trees are necessary to help give the tissue its fluffy feel.

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, “This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous.”

Hershkowitz said, “No forest of any kind should be used to make toilet paper.”

“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution,” Hershkowitz said.

Greenpeace has already launched a campaign against the producers of these so-called luxury products – toilet papers. The campaign will raise awareness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits.

According to the New York Times, the United States is the largest consumer of luxury toilet papers in the world. The people from other countries throughout Europe and Latin America are far less choosy about what they use to wipe. The tissue from 100 percent recycled fibers makes up less than 2 percent of sales for at-home use among conventional and premium brands.

The Times reported the Academy Awards ceremony last weekend used 100 percent recycled toilet paper at the Kodak Theater’s restrooms.