In the last couple years I've made quite a few changes that will help the environment. I think it's a worthy cause and I go along with it. We recycle almost everything at home. Cans, bottles, jars, juice and milk cartons. I use reusable shopping bags most of the time, it's just easier to get stuff up to the condo with a nice sturdy reusable shopping bag than a flimsy grocery store one that doesn't hold much and breaks. We use ShamWow's instead of papertowels. I buy maybe a roll of papertowel a year.
We both walk to work most of the time. In the winter I drive but it's only 7 blocks, I usually fill up with gas once every 7 weeks or so. In fact the lady at Saturn that books oil changes has phoned me once for the last 3 months to book one and I'm not even close to my 5000 kms. She was a little perterbed the last time. "Why do you have a car?" , she asked. "To get groceries", I said.
But then in the newspaper I was reading that most toilet paper is made from absolutely no recycled paper. And toilet paper alone is responsible for 5% of Canada's Forest decrements each year. So I did some research online and sure enough. Ironically, toilet paper is something I spluge on, I buy the expensive Charmin extra soft stuff. It's sooo nice, like pampering your bottom with a pillow. So I did some research on what would be more environmentally friendly. I could only find one brand that I've heard of and seen in stores and that was the PC Green Toilet Paper.
Now, when I first lived on my own in Calgary, I cheaped out on everything, so that I could afford to live there and do stuff and might have some savings when I came back to go to school. One thing I cheaped out on was Toilet Paper. And what was the cheapest toilet paper? You guessed it. Pc Green. It was so hard and scratchy that I vowed I would never ever cheap out on Toilet Paper again.
So I'm at a crossroads. I love the forest, yet, I don't want my butt to hurt. I can rationalize it that we don't use that much toilet paper. Some people go through it like crazy. We both use it responsibly. What's the happy medium so that I don't kill forest and use the bathroom in comfort?
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Save Trees? Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Get serious and add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.
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