I'd forgotten that colored toilet paper had disappeared
until a member of one of the writer's forums I belong to posted the question.
She has a baby boomer website that she calls Boomerina.
According the Stephen Lewis, columnist for the Mulsfreeboro,
Tennessee newspaper the popular pale pink, blue, green and lavender colored
toilet paper was banned some time ago, because at the sewage plant the dyes
used in the process couldn't be filtered out of the water, which made it
harmful to drink.
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| What happend to colored toilet paper? Most of the time, this is now what you get. |
Sewerage waste converted to drinking water? Yuk and double Yuk!!
And so, I googled an enquiry. According to Wikipedia, although it is possible
with modern technology to treat sewerage to the point where it is pure enough
to drink, the only place this is happening is in Singapore.
There is a blog about everything, and so it is that the
Toilet Paper World blog, yes indeedy deed there is such a site, gave a
different explanation. According to this blog, colored toilet was first manufactured
in the 1950s and was especially popular in the 1970s, at some point after that
its demise began.
The reasons for this are three fold. Firstly, doctors began
warning that the dye could cause skin irritation. Environmentalists expressed
concerned that the dyes were not biodegradable. And of course profit was a
factor. With the decline in sales and the expense involved manufacturers
stopped producing color toilet paper. Scott was the last manufacturer to cease
production, which happened in 2004.
However, somewhere in the United States, the website has
sparse information, there is a warehouse full of colored toilet paper. The
wholesaler claims it is "Dermatologically
and gynecologically tested, and does not bleed any color when wet!
Completely non-toxic, soothing tissue."
Next
up, whatever happened to colored kitchen appliances?
