The False Economy of Single-Ply Toilet Paper.

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One of the strictest rules at Burning Man that isn't one of the Principles is this:

THOU SHALL NOT PUT ANYTHING BUT SINGLE-PLY TOILET PAPER IN THE JOTS!

This is for an excellent reason. The nearly 3,000 portasans at Burning Man are served by drivers who make thousand-mile round-trips to clean the things four times a day. Anything thicker than single-ply clogs their hoses, requiring them to clear them. By hand.

As we love our jot trucks - seriously, those guys leave the Playa daily with beer, food, and gifts - we work hard to keep the toilets clean and pure. Well, you know what I mean.

But in almost any other situation, single-ply is a false economy. Oh, you see it everywhere. . .  restaurants, hospitals, gas stations, virtually any public toilet is going to be stocked with this stuff. And yes, if you are buying TP in industrial lots, single-ply looks better for the bottom line, no pun intended.

But honestly, and I'd like to hear from the people reading this when confronted by toilet paper less structurally sound than Kleenex, don't you take twice as much as usual and make your double-ply tissue? To protect your hands and for the minimal cleaning expectation we are used to at home!

During my last miserable stint in retail, I noticed that we needed to change the TP in our restrooms five times daily. Which was unreal, given the usual customer load. Even the store manager agreed that customers used "too much" toilet paper.

No, Triesne, they used precisely enough of what we gave them.