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Originally Posted by
Henry Boogers 
Well, as luck would have it I have a B.S. in Paper Science & Engineering. Yes, I'm being serious.
The particles that you see floating out of the T.P. will be very similar in composition to the TP itself: primarily paper fiber with some carbonate filler and a host of softening and sizing agents. The reason that the paper does this is a debonder is added to TP to enable the rapid degradation of the sheet in the sewage systems. Compare this to facial tissue ("Kleenex") which is similar in feel but designed to hold it's form when in contact with moisture. Couple weak hydrogen bonding with highly refined short fibers and you have lots of pieces ready to break free.
As for the particles settling on your clothes I suspect that the majority of this is household dust, rather than paper dust, which is actually comprised primarily of dead skin cells. On the other hand I have no feel for the freqency with which you utilize TP or your exfoliating habits so YMMV.
I appreciate this very insightful post, thanks. Its for learning solid info like this that I made this thread. Some of you may think its funny because it doesn't happen to you, but for me it does seriously happen to me so it is not funny
to me.
How would you advise me to solve this problem? That is the one part of your post I'm unsure about. Are you advising to me use Kleenex as toilet paper? Not sure I'd wanna do that simply because of how expensive it would get. Some other posters, if I'm understanding things correctly, advised me to use paper towels as toilet paper. Would you advise that too?
How do I attack the problem with ventilation? What kind of machine do I need? I have a small bachelor apartment so I don't have a lot of space.
It may be other dust particles in the air along with the TP particles that stick to my clothes...if so, same question. I wanna know what I can do, specifically, to completely 100% eliminate this problem.
That is your best post to date.
