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P&G Donates Toilet Paper Patents

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Procter & Gamble Co. announced Thursday it is donating 66 patents for a new, cheaper way to produce bathroom tissue to Atlanta’s Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST). The method replaces some wood fiber in toilet paper with kaolin, a type of clay also used in cat litter. The company says using clay could save the paper industry $100 million each year. IPST, a private graduate university devoted to paper, can refine the technology and sell the rights to use it to other comp...

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