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> Very strange. So people buy their TP online and get it shipped to them with more paper around them than it takes to make the rolls themselves? Opening, breaking down and disposing the box seems much more work and wasteful.

TP ships to grocery stores in cardboard boxes too; if you buy the large sizes, they just put the shipping label on that box.




- Stores could recycle/reuse the boxes a lot easier and maybe they do.

- You don't have to handle the breaking down and disposing yourself.

- How many people doing this are buying 96ct boxes?

- It takes a ridiculous amount of space for last mile delivery especially if they are buying the 96ct box which would be the closest to efficiency of a wholesale store, but still not as good.

I'm not a eco-nazi so I don't really care to squabble over emissions, but it's a bit silly, do people in LA not do wholesale runs a couple times a year for bulk items? It just seems wasteful for the delivery system and yourself, financially and otherwise.




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