Have you been convinced by toilet paper advertisements that you need velvety smooth toilet paper for your tender bottom? Can you believe this "luxury" is made from cutting down old-growth and virgin forests??!?!
Deforestation is a huge problem as it destroys valuable ecosystems, adding to global warming. Yet Americans, mostly unaware of what needs to be done to give them toilet paper, use three times more of than Europeans and 100 times more than the average Chinese person.
Why do we need that much? Why do we buy into the manufactures' need to increase their market share with extra-soft tissue that requires the use of old-growth wood to make it?
Why can't the manufacturers of Charmin and other such toilet papers increase their bottom lines AND help take care of our planet at the same time? Other manufacturers do.
If you're feeling as outraged and deceived as I am, check out Greenpeace's toilet paper guide
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/tissueguide
It lets you rank your "personal paper" in three areas: 1.) percentage of recycled material, 2.) percentage of post-consumer recycled material, and 3.) use of harmful chlorine bleaches.
Look for "green" for your next paper purchase. Some brands that don't harm the planet include Green Forest, 365, Earth Friendly, Natural Value, Seventh Generation, and Trader Joe's.
Bottom line (pun intended) buy recycled (80% post-consumer, 100% overall) toilet paper. An ancient forest will thank you - and so will our planet.
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