Relevant Scientific American article. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-bidets/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-bid

Relevant Scientific American article. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-bidets/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-bidet... "Popular everywhere except North America, where Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper annually, switching to bathroom bidets could save some 15 million trees.... 'This also involves 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to produce the paper and 253,000 tons of chlorine for bleaching.” He adds that manufacturing requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually....'