Comment by necovek
2 days ago
As mentioned in a sibling comment, weight might need to be accounted for too: thicker paper is more absorbant, but not linearly so.
So really, how absorbant the paper is should be the gold standard, so let's ask manufacturers to put that on the packaging?
Manufacturers already indicate to the thickness of their paper with ply count: <https://blog.whogivesacrap.org/home/difference-ply-toilet-pa...>.
Although that doesn’t speak to the actual quality of the individual layers of paper. I’m not sure if weight is useful especially when manufacturers are already putting their thumb on the scale in other ways with the ‘2 Jumbo-Mega-Rolls are the equivalent of 8 Super rolls’ scheme that I initially referred to.
If all weight can tell me is that 2-Jumbo-Mega Rolls weigh the same as 8 Super rolls am I any better informed?
This is why I’m pretty content with using the price in cents per square foot as a baseline. In general it’s a useful metric when shopping elsewhere at the grocery store too.