Where does all the toilet paper go?

Question

When its flushed down the toilet, do they recycle it or put it in a landfill somewhere?

Answer 1

if you go to your supermarket you can buy recycled toilet paper. I wouldn't like the job of collecting the used paper to recycle it

The real answer is that the paper disintegrates and is flushed down the drain by the time it gets to the purifying plant it has completely disappeared.

Answer 2

It goes to some sort of wastewater treatment process, just like everything else you flush.

Most places screen out the big stuff that won't degrade before it gets treated, but toilet paper usually isn't a problem anymore by that point after navigating the miles of sewer pipe.  It degrades nicely, because it's thin paper -- microorganisms like to eat stuff like that.  The stuff that gets stuck on the screen tends to get landfilled, but that's not going to be much, if any, toilet paper.

Answer 3

It's biodegradable and it enrich soils nutrients.

Answer 4

toilet paper is made by cellulose that is biodegradable material so if we flush it in toilet, it will diffuse with water, away. if this material (water + paper) reach river, it will join with soil. but in our country, we use water than toilet water to wash out back after do that, so we should don't cut down trees much, but this cut down episode still continues ...

Answer 5

Most of it goes down the loo to the sewage plant where it is degraded or filtered. If filtered it is then incinerated. Most Loo paper is now degradable so it breaks down very easily in water. Go to some countries and you will find different systems.

Answer 6

Some is degraded (consumed by bacteria), some is removed with the solids at the primary treatment plant (assuming it isn't dumped directly into some water body somewhere).  The solids collected from treatment plants are used as fertilizer or destroyed or buried, depending on the practice of the authority that runs the system.

Answer 7

toilet paper is a tissue paper so each country has its own way of dealing with this situation. some countries would probably through them and increase landfill, while others may recycle them which is the best solution "RECYCLING" :D

Answer 8

Toilet paper is biodegradable... meaning it breaks down in the water.

The more important question to ask - is how many trees were cut down to make all the tp we consume in this world!

Answer 9

it goes into the trash