Discussing ways to reduce waste and build community!
Celebrate thrift as a virtue, talk about creative ways to make do, or show off how you reused something!
I try to find home-compostable disposables, which I can just throw in my compost pile, and eventually adds organic matter and nutrients to my various garden beds and pots.
Nearly all clothing contains synthetics, which I do not want in my soil, so I try to buy higher quality, more durable clothing.
I do not do humanure composting, and just buy the cheapest toilet paper :)
I generally try to avoid disposables if there's a practical alternative.
A bidet will cut way down on toilet paper use. Source: im an alcoholic man who loves greasy spicy food, and used to use a ton of toiletpaper. Now its often a one or two wipe job.
It would be interesting to do a proper comparative lifecycle analysis. Treating, pumping and heating water isn't zero-carbon (especially if you run it for a while waiting for it to get up to temperature) and I'd be curious to know when is the break-even point that the carbon costs of a bidet beat a few sheets of paper
Mine doesnt do hot, but yeah id be down to see a study. I think paper production uses a bunch of water though.
I wash my butt in the shower right after a shit and then just dry up with a towel as I do after any shower. Somehow, I don't even mind the water being completely cold if it's just my butt hanging into the shower. I do I eat a lot of fibre though.