Little Known Facts about Toilet Paper: an Essential Consumable Supply

Most likely you’ve had this happen to you at some point. You are going to the restroom in a public place, and when you reach for the toilet paper, you realize the roll is empty! This is a situation no one wants to be in. Toilet paper is an essential item most of us use every day. As a cleaning company that handles consumable supplies for St Louis Park businesses, we do our best to prevent this situation from happening! We want to make sure all the essential consumable supplies you need are well stocked and easily accessed.

Since toilet paper is an essential consumable supply that we restock regularly, we thought it would be fun to share some little known facts about this paper on a roll.

1. The first recorded use of toilet paper was in 6^th century China.

2. Packaged toilet paper was first sold in the United States in 1857.

3. The first splinter-free toilet paper was manufactured in 1935.

4. About 4 billion people in the world (nearly 75% off the world’s population) do not use toilet paper. Either it’s too expensive, they don’t have adequate plumbing or they have other preferred forms of cleaning.

5. Throughout history, what people used to wipe depended on their economic status. French royalty used lace while wealthy Romans used wool soaked in rose water.

6. The average American uses 100 rolls of toilet paper per year.

7. Americans use an average of 8.6 sheets of toilet paper each time they go to the restroom and an average of 57 sheets per day.

8. There are about 83,048,116 rolls of toilet paper produced each day.

9. 7 percent of Americans admit to stealing toilet paper rolls from hotels.

10. When asked what they’d bring if stranded on a deserted island, 49 percent of people said toilet paper before food.

Hopefully, you learned something new about toilet paper that you can share at your next water cooler conversation! The next time you use the restroom at your office, be thankful for consumable supplies like toilet paper, and as a final tip, remember to always check the toilet paper dispenser before sitting on the toilet – just in case!

If you are interested in having All Source handle the consumable supplies for your St Louis Park business, give us a call at 952-473-3228 or Contact Us. We will make sure you don’t run out of toilet paper!