Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Switch to Recycled Toilet Paper.
Recycled toilet paper uses less energy and fewer natural resources to produce; it’s also comparable in price to non-recycled brands. Look for brands that are unbleached to help keep harmful chemicals from being released into the wastewater during the manufacturing process.
If every household in the United States replaced one four-pack of toilet paper with a recycled brad, it would save 988,000 trees and 356 million gallons of water. It would also prevent more than 60,600 pounds of chlorine pollution.
See all of the other tips in our Go Green series.