There must be a reason why they do this, but in my ignorance, it seems that making a thicker 'single-ply' product would cut (roughly) in half the work to produce - as in - why do something twice that can be done once?
Why do companies that make toilet paper make 'two-ply' instead of making 'single-ply' twice as thick?
This doesn't make any sense.
pick up a stack of printer paper. it bends because it's a lot of thin slices. if you have a block of wood at the same dimensions as a stack of printer paper, it would be entirely rigid.
if you had a very thick single ply of paper it would not bend. it would just be a piece of cardboard
If you have two ply toilet paper spun into a roll, there is no difference than if the plys were together in a one ply roll. This isn't a stack of printer paper.
the thickness of each ply effective the rigidity of the product. that's why the only way to make thicker by adding plies. that's why they don't "just make one ply thicker".
I use far more of the cheap, single ply than I do of the two-ply. It seems stupid.
Right? Why do they bother?
I am saying this as something I learned a very long time ago, but when toilet paper hits the water it is its job to break down rapidly so that you don’t get clogs. If you had thicker single ply toilet paper, it wouldn’t break down as easily:
The only evidence I have for this is that my wife lets her wadded up toilet paper sit on the front of the bowl where it doesn’t hit the water, and then when she flushes it will sometimes require me to get the plunger
I like your answer. However, I find it tough to swallow that having two plys together is much different than a single ply twice as thick.
I have yet to see a single ply kleenex/nose-tissue.
Your not suppose to flush those
It’s all marketing. Single ply of the way to go. Then you can take and fold what you need. They know that you will use too much of the 2ply and have to buy more often.
All that the user wants is toilet paper that doesn't tear. Thin single ply TP tears when pulling it from the roll by accident.
All that the user wants is toilet paper that doesn't tear. Thin single ply TP tears when pulling it from the roll by accident.
then you just have a piece of cardboard