The Itchy Issue of Recycled Toilet Paper

Posted by at May 12th, 2009 in Climate Change

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I wish I could say that I’m clueless about why The Recycled Toilet Paper Debate keeps coming up, but let’s face it — we’ve had the “Eco-sandpaper Experience.” Butts are tender and recycled paper can be rough ! Compounding the difficulty of finding a recycled TP solution is the challenge of finding a brand that meets the whole family’s demands for softness, absorbency and cost, while being made with an environmentally-correct amount of post-consumer waste. So why bother? There are plenty of compelling reasons for using recycled bathroom tissue. As the Natural Resources Defense Council says: “If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber toilet paper (500 sheets) with 100 recycled, 80 recycled, 80 recycled, minimum 60 virgin fiber isn’t great, but is better than 100% virgin fiber and you gotta start somewhere!

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