Why the disappearance of the bidet is an ecological drama
He was present in all bathrooms until the sixties. With the arrival of the toilet paper, the bidet fell to oblivion. Today, we do not even remember its usefulness anymore. However, this appliance is more hygienic and much more ecological than paper.
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Some think that the bidet is used to wash their feet, clean their clothes or groom their pet. Others use it as a bathtub for the baby bath or more unusual as a cooler to keep beer bottles cool. The uses of the bidet can be multiple.
- The intimate toilet or the pink leaves - Louis Léopold Boilly
- The intimate toilet or the pink leaves - Louis Léopold Boilly - © All rights reserved
- Invented in the eighteenth century for the aristocratic toilet, the bidet is used to clean the private parts after a toilet. Once the small or large commission is over, this fixture offers a wash with hot water to feel fresh as a rose.
But now, with the massive arrival of toilet paper in the sixties, the bidet has lost its usefulness. Besides, what do you do when you have to renovate an old apartment or an old house? Yes, we turn the bidet! Instead, you usually install a shower, essential sanitary fixture in bathrooms.
In Italy, the bidet is always popular!
If the Belgians sulk the bidet, this is not the case for everyone. "The Mediterranean, the Asians and the Russians still ask us," says Audrey Van den Berg, head of a company that sells sanitary. By the way, if you are going on vacation to Italy, expect to find bidet in the bathroom of the hotel. There, even companies are equipped with bidets. "I always knew a bidet in the bathroom," says Rosalia Carubia. For this Sicilian Boussu, a bathroom without bidet, it is simply inconceivable: "It's a question of hygiene".
- Toilet paper, a plague for the environment
- Toilet paper contributes to deforestation
- Toilet paper contributes to deforestation - © All rights reserved
- All is not lost ... The comeback of the bidet, we talk more and more in the United States where the sanitary apparatus has never been part of the local culture. But at a time when we are trying to reduce our environmental impact, the bidet is an essential ally. In addition to being hygienic, it drastically reduces our use of toilet paper.
These squares of paper used several times a day contribute to deforestation. Every year, ten million trees are slaughtered to supply the world's demand for toilet paper - 27,000 trees a day.
In addition to the environmental cost, there is also the financial aspect. Depending on the type of paper purchased, each inhabitant spends on average between 20 and 90 euros a year to leave the toilet with a satisfied air!