Thanks to Pam P.
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If you’re trying to be more eco-friendly, finding more sustainable solutions to products you use every day is an easy way to lower your impact. Stasher bags and reusable totes might have helped you cut down on your single-use plastic waste, but the paper products you throw away and flush down your toilet every day also have a devastating impact on the environment.
The Natural Defense Council examined the effect of paper products using virgin pulp on the Canadian boreal forest in its 2019 Issue with Tissue report, and found that between 1995 and 2015, more than 28 million acres of the forest was logged, about the size of Ohio. According to the report, the Canadian boreal forest is the main provider of tissue pulp for the United States, which has the second largest tissue market in the world at $31 billion.
Thank you Pam. It feels good to be part of the solution.