Soft toilet paper use is worse than driving a Hummer, living in a McMansion or eating hamburgers according to information recently released by Greenpeace.
Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace are currently working on a joint campaign to get American consumers to take a closer look at what they are using in the bathroom. Toilet paper choices are lot more important than most people think in the fight against climate change.
Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist for Natural Resources Defense Council, explains that deforestation causes more global warming pollution than all the combined emissions of cars, trucks, buses, airplanes and ships in the entire world. Deforestation alone causes more global warming pollution than that emitted from all other sources in the USA.
Tissue made from 100% recycled fibres makes up less than 2% of sales for at-home use among conventional and premium brands, reports The New York Times. If recycled fibres are not used in the manufacture of toilet paper then virgin content is used to make soft toilet paper and tissues.
America is the worst nation on earth for toilet paper consumption. The UK Guardian Newspaper reports that Americans use about three times more toilet paper per person than the average European, and 100 times more than the average person in China. The Greenpeace and Natural Resources Defense Council joint campaign advocates for toilet paper to be made from recovered, second generation fibres only.
Consumers can find out how their toilet paper rates by downloading Greenpeace’s handy TP guide.
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