As a tree lover and preserver, I use cloth instead of paper in the form of tissue, napkins, paper towels, etc. Paper products are often made from virgin fiber (instead of recycled materials) and bleached with chlorine resulting in all kinds of environmental woes, from downed trees to airborne carcinogens to polluted water. Kleenex is a particularly destructive force to ancient forests. Check out Greenpeace's Kleerkut campaign for more info. Oy! Use cloth instead. I even stopped using TP at home which may sound like a foreign idea to westerners. Indeed it is, the idea comes from India where a billion people use water instead and have been for thousands of years.
On the topic of unnecessary paper use, check out 41 pounds to stop junk mail and unwanted catalogs. Again, see Chris Jordan's artwork showing 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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