A new idea to contrast toilet paper panic-buying
The stockpile of toilet paper keeps leaving shelves of the supermarkets empty, so a website was created to answer the question of how much paper do we need?
The name of the site is howmuchtoiletpaper.com which is created by student software developer Ben Sassoon and artist Sam Harris, both based in London, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The tool calculates just how long your stocks of toilet paper will last you during a quarantine.
The idea came to them naturally, while talking about how much toilet paper they used, and how that would change during the pandemic.
The layout is simple. Users enter how many rolls of toilet paper they have and how many times they go to the toilet.
Thanks to the “Advanced Options” section, you can get detailed information, customizing the average number of wipes per trip, the number of sheets per wipe, sheets on the roll, and people in the house.
More than 2 million people have used the tool, the website says, and the average user has a 500% more surplus of toilet paper than they need for quarantine.
The whole point of the tool is to reduce the toilet paper shortage around the world, which has begun as panic-buying out of fear of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The sudden high demand for toilet paper has resulted in the industry working hard to meet the raised need, said the American Forest & Paper Association, an industry group representing paper product makers.
The site is funny but also useful to avoid people being too selfish: there’s no need to buy more than needed.
Another site (SwankyDen.com), which is a home decor blog, provides its toilet paper calculator, an info-graphic, green advice, and some facts about toilet paper.
Source CNN; SwankyDen.com
