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Tisdag 04.21 pm,

The Malaysian toilets do not have toilet paper. Here we use a shower to clean ourselves.

The usage of such a simple thing as water saves a lot. But let's see what it could save in Sweden:

In the year 2008 the retail volume of toilet paper in Sweden reached 52 200 tonnes. With a population of 9 179 300 people this ends up in 5.68 kilogram of toilet paper per person. The retail value for this toilet paper is 1 604.9 million SEK. Numbers that the Malaysian people don't have to worry about.

Think about how much money and trees we could save with the usage of a shower?

However, the economic law says that all incomes always have to be spend and the producer of paper would probably found another market. So I have another idea for the usage of our saved paper and money:

The estimated growth rate of Swedish full-time students in year 2009 is 14 300. So these are 14 300 more students that will need notebooks at school start this month. As we all know, increase in demand meets increase in supply. So if we estimate the average retail price of a notebook to 25 SEK the new students could by from 64.196 millions new notebooks from the retail value of total toilet papers. Of course this requires the retailers to stop sell toilet paper and shift to notebooks. 

Good luck with you toilet paper and your studies Sweden!