Alternative to Toilet Papers : Blue Spur Leaves

Plant Leaves of Blue Spur is an alternative of Toilet Rolls ?

Environmentalists are seriously concerned that one million trees worldwide are cut down every year to make toilet paper.Is there any alternative to toilet paper? 

Oh yes, Meru, a town in eastern Kenya shown the way. Few years back , residents of Meru started using the leaves of Blue Spur Flower plant as toilet paper. Its leaves are roughly the size of an industrial toilet paper square and emit a minty, lemony fragrance. Covered in tiny hairs, the leaves have a soft texture. 

A fast growing erect large shrub to 6 to 8+ feet tall by as wide with thick stems holding large 4 to 6 inch long ovate light green leaves that are lightly fuzzy and have small dentations along the margins. In fall through late spring and often well into summer appear the showy dark blue-purple flowers arranged in stacked verticils, each holding 6 to 8 flowers, arranged along in a 10 inch long inflorescence. This plant thrives in warm tropical temperatures and partial sunlight and is widely grown across Africa, where it is sometimes used to demarcate agricultural fields.

The pulp and paper industry is the world's largest consumer of virgin wood, using roughly 35% of harvested trees for paper production and a large part of it used as toilet paper. This is driving deforestation, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, species extinction and widespread ecosystem disruption. 

Martin Odhiambo, a herbalist at the National Museum of Kenya in his latest Ethical Consumer report on ethical toilet paper says that 

the solution to the environmental impact of cutting trees for toilet paper is  already be here in Blue Spur flower plant it’s botanical name is  Plectranthus barbatus.