Poems reduce toilet paper waste

toilet love

A neat idea to save toilet paper:

Simply pasting a “toilet poem” at the eye level of a person seated in the cubicle can help cut toilet paper use by up to 20 percent, a study by the research center Japan Toilet Labo showed.

“That paper will meet you only for a moment,” reads one poem. “Fold the paper over and over and over again,” says another. Or just: “Love the toilet.”

Now the group is looking to have its posters displayed in 1,000 public toilets.

If you own a restroom and would like to put up some Japanese toilet poems, you can download printable sheets from the Japan Toilet Labo homepage.

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8 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 28, 2009 at 6:36 am

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what a dumbass idea; pasting poems all over public toilets is also a fuckin waste of paper and ink

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

But think about how much paper you can save by hanging ONE sheet of paper in a highly frequented public restroom for a while.

I’d say the saving largely outweighs the initial cost of the printed paper.

http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

I’m with Haf here; I think this is a great idea. Just as installing sound machines in women’s toilets has saved many cubic litres of water, this ‘poem in a toilet’ idea may save some trees. And talk about bringing the arts to the masses!
http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

I’ve just spotted the message — Love to a toilet? To a toilet, love? That one just defies translation. Beautiful.
http://aki-akiaki.blogspot.com Aki

I have translated three of the poems. Translations may be incorrect, but they would show how they are like.

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Everyone wipes his ass.

Prime minister wipes his ass.
High school girls wipe their asses.
Wife and her mother-in-law wipe their asses.
Railroad workers wipe their asses.
Flight attendants wipe their asses.
You wipe your ass.
Next one wipes his ass.

Toilet paper is
common property of humanity

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Loneliness of toilet paper

Nice to meet you.
Good bye.
The paper can meet you just for a moment.
It is a meeting for a moment of less than several centimeters.
As if you are reluctant to part,
folding many times, many many times,
Good bye,
Good bye,
Thank you.

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Complete crime

Waste of toilet paper
is accomplished like a locked-room murder.
http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

Okay, now I want these poems for my house — seriously. My kids can learn Japanese and a useful message, all at the same time.
And God knows, it’s all so true.

Will you please supply the original Japanese text?

http://www.japanprobe.com James

Mary:

The first poem Aki translated can be found at http://www.toilet.or.jp/toilet-6/poem/img/poem1.gif

And the second one is:
http://www.toilet.or.jp/toilet-6/poem/img/poem2.gif

The third one:
http://www.toilet.or.jp/toilet-6/poem/img/poem5.gif

http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

Thank you! Copied and posted in their bathroom now!

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