It may have been out of fashion in British homes for 30 years – but experts say that washing your nether regions beats using toilet paper on both hygiene and environmental grounds.
The British have been stubborn about bidets but interest is growing.
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Bathroom news from the US, where entrepreneur Miki Agrawal, who co-founded the period-proof underwear company Thinx, “wants America to embrace the bidet”. Agrawal stepped down from Thinx last year after she was accused of sexual harassment, but has returned with a new company, Tushy, which makes devices that convert toilets into bidets. So is it time to forsake paper for water?
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day – and about 10% of this is toilet paper. Globally, according to one environmental group, we use enough toilet paper to stretch around the planet every two minutes, or stretch to the sun and back every 10 days. Scientific American reports that switching to bidets “could save some 15m trees”.
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Hazel’s comment
You could, of course, go down the route that I have used for years. Just search for "portable bidet" and you will get a number of these plastic bowls that fit over the normal toilet bowl.
Much more fiddly than the real thing but cheap and easy.
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