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Yes, Your Toilet Paper Squares And Rolls Are Shrinking

Published January 28, 2015 at 5:20 PM CST

Robert Siegel talks to Steven Chercover, a research analyst who studies the paper and forest industries, about the trend of shrinking toilet paper rolls. The old standard square sheet of 4.5 inches wide by 4.5 inches long has been getting increasingly smaller.

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