Sneeze Guilt-Free with Greenpeace Tissue Guide
March 3, 2009 by Julia Wasson
Filed under Blog, Chlorine, Environment, Forest, Front Page, Green Living, Paper Goods, Post-Consumer Waste, Slideshow, Sustainability, Tissues, U.S.
“Did you know? Americans could save more than 400,000 trees if each family bought a roll of recycled toilet paper — just once.” — Greenpeace Tissue Guide
Joe is sitting in our office, coughing and blowing into a tissue (Kleenex). He’s got a mound of them in the wastebasket on the floor next to him. One after another, he blows and performs the other functions that go with a bad upper respiratory illness. Without the tissues, we’d need a dresserful of handkerchiefs, hot water, and detergent — to say nothing of the tolerance required for washing cloths filled with virus-borne nasal fluids. I’m grateful (as he is) for the ready convenience of facial tissues…
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