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Why do public bathrooms use 1-ply toilet paper?

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xboxist

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The only place I've seen "home-worthy" toilet paper used was once in a really fine restaurant, and in a nicer hotel. Every other place uses crappy, super-thin 1-ply paper.

Ok, the obvious reason is money. But when you end up using twice as much paper from their rolls to make up for the missing ply, they're going to have to replace the rolls twice as fast. And assuming that the 1-ply costs about half of the price of 2-ply... why don't they just eliminate the only difference (our hatred for having to use the 1-ply) between the two options and use 2-ply?

Unless... somehow... you all manage to use the same length of crappy toilet paper that you use with good toilet paper. *raises eyebrow*

I can't even fathom that.
 
Even though it may end up costing more money in the long run, most places will not think that deeply into a purchase of toilet paper. Just give me the cheap ones!
 
i think you may be oversimplifying. i don't think bulk 1 ply would cost half as much as 2 ply and be used twice as much. somehow, somewhere, i think that on the whole over the long run, 1 ply just works out cheaper and has less wastage. plus you can make those giant ass rolls from it which are miles long- 2 ply of the same would be more than twice as thick IMO, heavier, and thus more expensive to transport too.
 
Based off a quick search:

Cottonelle Ultra = 264 sheets per roll, $0.83 per roll
Scott Single Ply = 1500 sheets per roll, $0.67 per roll

You do the math.

Viper GTS
 
they don't want you too comfy. some better corporation office buildings have nice toilets/paper for their workers.
 
I once when to such a swank restaurant the bathroom attendant wiped YOUR ass for you with swabs of silk... and left an ass mint to boot.
 
Originally posted by: Mday
cheaper, and dont clog up toilets as easily as 2-3 ply, especially if using a low flow toilet.
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That, plus they use single-ply to discourage you from using it for defecation. I won't anyway simply because I don't defecate in public bathrooms, but if you could wait to get home who wouldn't?
 
Originally posted by: Mday
cheaper, and dont clog up toilets as easily as 2-3 ply, especially if using a low flow toilet.
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When I was in grade school, a group I was in had to do some crazy science experiment involving the rate that TP dissolves at. We found that expensive TP dissolved significantly faster than the cheap stuff. Dissolving has to be at least partly tied to clogability of the toilet.
 
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