Last week on Green Thursday, I told you about our Seventh Generation dishwashing liquid. This week, it's time to extol the virtues of their paper products, which are made from 100% recycled paper, with a minimum of 80% post-consumer materials. Their paper is whitened with an environmentally safe process, not chlorine bleach. Bleaching paper with chlorine creates dangerous toxins such as dioxins, furans and other organochlorines. Once loose in the environment, these chemicals accumulate in both people and animals. Hundreds of studies have shown a direct link between dioxin exposure and cancer, birth defects and developmental and reproductive disorders.Recycling paper prevents unnecessary landfilling of natural resources. In addition to saving trees, producing recycled paper uses less water and energy than paper made from trees.
I would like to claim responsibility for being all green in our house, but I have to give that honor to Charmaine. You really have to look for these kind of products in the store, usually on the lower shelves away from the ends of the aisle where all the major brands are.
Does it make a difference? Of course it does. Indivually, none of us can protect the environment, but if everyone does their part here and there, the effect can be tremendous. The conservatives pontificate how man is the master of his environment, but when it's all spoiled, don't come crying to me.
Every Green Thursday we post about issues critical to the planet.
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