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If there’s one thing that modern Americans absolutely require, it’s toilet paper — but whole forests are being destroyed to provide this and similar products, including facial tissues and paper towels. Not only that, they’re often bleached white using dangerous processes that can negatively impact the environment.
Aside from demanding that manufacturers stop using virgin forests to make throwaway products, you can get around the problem by looking for paper products made of post-consumer (recycled) materials. No we’re not talking about someone else’s used toilet paper, that’s just gross!
Replacing just one roll of virgin-fiber toilet paper with 100% recycled toilet paper in every American household could save almost 424,000 trees a year. For more statistics and lists of available recycled paper products by brand name, click here.
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