{"id":79620,"date":"2018-02-11T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-bottom-line-why-its-time-the-bidet-made-a-comeback\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:16:08","slug":"the-bottom-line-why-its-time-the-bidet-made-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-bottom-line-why-its-time-the-bidet-made-a-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"The bottom line: why it\u2019s time the bidet made a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt may have been out of fashion in British homes for 30 years \u2013 but experts say that washing your nether regions beats using toilet paper on both hygiene and environmental groundsBathroom news from the US, where entrepreneur Miki Agrawal, who co-founded the period-proof underwear company Thinx, \u201cwants America to embrace the bidet\u201d. 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 \u2013 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 \u201ccould save some 15m trees\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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