“Found some toilet paper in the wild! Toilet paper is not the only essential item shoppers stocked up on after states started locking down businesses to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus in mid-March. In Europe, the shortages at retail stores may be less dire due partly to the fact that some production is done closer to retailers. “Normally there are fewer and larger factories in the US,” said Magnus Groth, chief executive of Europe’s biggest toilet paper maker, Essity. P&G’s plants manufacture massive “parent” rolls of toilet paper and then convert them to small rolls for home use.

Source: bd News24 April 29, 2020 00:00 UTC