There's nothing clean or smart about wiping with wood. One roll of tree paper requires 37 gallons of water and a gallon of chemicals to produce. These chemicals, including bleach, formaldehyde, and other carcinogens, enter the body through micro-cuts, causing hemorrhoids, yeast infections, and UTIs. The fluffier and whiter the tree-paper, the more bleach and formaldehyde it contains.
Most tree-paper contains pulp harvested from the Boreal Forest, the world’s most important carbon sink. The chemicals used to make white, fluffy toilet paper poison our waterways and our bloodstreams.
Recycled toilet paper is better, but it's far from perfect. It also contains BPA, a known endocrine disruptor that finds its way into the recycling stream. As the world uses less office paper, BPA content in recycled toilet paper will continue to climb.
Benefits:
Here's how the switch to Plant Paper helps our planet:
27,000 trees per day are flushed down the world’s toilets, including thousands of acres of boreal forest per minute!
And, each roll saves:
We love adding Plant Paper to our eco friendly selection of products. It's a smart and affordable switch!
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