--- title: "Stop Using Toilet Paper" date: 2023-04-12T00:00:01 draft: false --- One small way to reduce your environmental footprint is washing your butt with a [bidet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet) instead of using toilet paper. Using water to wash your butt may seem like a foreign concept, but it's very common in some parts of the world. If everyone using toilet paper switched to a bidet, [millions of trees could be saved every year](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-bidets/). What other reason do you need?