Who gives a crap?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381759)
Rockingham, Australia
September 29, 2024 7:05pm CST
We’ve just ordered our second box of Crap Toilet Paper. We’re getting a pack of four dozen. Although the name is a bit ‘off’, the company gives 50% of their profits ‘to help build toilets and improve sanitation in the developing world’.
The website says that, when the company started, 2.4 billion people didn’t have access to a toilet, or roughly 40% of the global population. Around 289,000 children under five die every year from diarrhoeal diseases, - or one every two minutes.
In July 2012, three young men launched a crowdfunding campaign. One sat on a toilet for 50 hours until there were enough pre-orders to start production. I don’t know how much they sell nowadays but they’re still going. Fifty percent of their profits sounds pretty generous to me.
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27 responses
@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
30 Sep 24
Wow, you never think of people not having something as basic as a toilet, but then again, if you don't have water or food to eat..I guess toilets are lower on the list of needs. That is amazing about the children that die..so unnecessary.
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@JudyEv (381759)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Oct 24
@Fleura I agree with all you say BUT if you haven't been 'squatting' all your life, and you then have to use them when you're old, it becomes very hard to get up from a squat and it's not always a good idea to put your hands down! 
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
30 Sep 24
That is generous--I would give a crap too==
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
30 Sep 24
@JudyEv I will keep my eyes open for it--Thanks!
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@thislittlepennyearns (68159)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
30 Sep 24
I will have to look into them. Thats awesome.
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@thislittlepennyearns (68159)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
30 Sep 24
@JudyEv They must.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
30 Sep 24
That's a good cause. It's good that Vince and you support it.
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
30 Sep 24
Yes. But is it true that they donate 50%? That's like too good to be true.
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@somewitch (1470)
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30 Sep 24
That's so sweet, activists that actually do something. Kudos for supporting their cause, I really hope it will make a difference. Personally, I'd buy from them just because I like the brand name and packaging. 
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
30 Sep 24
It does sound very generous. Good fundraising as well.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
30 Sep 24
That is a good amount to give. I like the box
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
30 Sep 24
They are available here too. I just hope the scheme is effective. I have read about sanitation projects providing toilets in places with no reliable water supply, for example, or where there were other problems. A fancy toilet just standing there as a sort of 'folly' while all the locals just walked out into the bush as usual.
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@JudyEv (381759)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Sep 24
We went to Thailand to install a clean water source. One had been put in before but there was no-one to maintain the pump that the scheme relied on. Our team put in a pipe from a clean water source high up in the mountain and it gravity fed to a tank in the village with every two houses having a tap. There were no toilets there but at least the village then had clean water.
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