Please read the above sentence over again just to make sure it is absolutely crystal clear to you because when I first read this I didn't believe my eyes. I bet you one case of post-consumer toilet paper that if you asked 100 of your closest friends what causes more global warming pollution; deforestation or the combined emissions of cars, trucks, buses, airplanes and ships they would all say the combined emissions.
The following forests are at risk because of a product you use for an average of 3 seconds: ancient forests, old growth forests, virgin forests, second growth forests, natural forests, high conservation value forests, temperate forests, tropical and sub-tropical forests and boreal forests. Literally millions of acres destroyed in Brazil by cutting and conversion for the manufacture of pulp made into toilet paper and other tissue products by Kimberly Clark and Proctor & Gamble.
Before you buy another roll of virgin toilet paper and paper towel please think about the real cost of what you are doing, not just the actual price you pay at the checkout stand, but the "earth cost".
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