{"id":43,"date":"2009-03-10T07:13:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-03-10T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:20:56","slug":"toilet-paper-from-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/toilet-paper-from-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Paper from Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always been curious if toilet paper is made from recycled paper, or if it’s made directly from trees \u2013 well now, the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) has provided a handy list<\/a> of toilet paper brands (and other paper products) that use (or don’t use) recycled paper to make their product. Some of the more commercial brands such as Kleenex, Charmin and Cottonelle make their toilet paper directly from virgin tree pulp, while other brands such as Best Value, Green Forest and 7th Generation make it from 100% recycled paper pulp. Here’s the breakdown:\n<\/p>\n

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Toilet Paper<\/b><\/font>
\n If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber toilet paper (500 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 423,900 trees.<\/b><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0SEE OTHER PAPER PRODUCT LISTS<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n		\"\" <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n\"Percent<\/td>\n\"Percent<\/td>\n\"Bleaching<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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365 (Whole Foods)<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n>80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ambiance<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April Soft<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Best Value<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n<40<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Earth First<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fiesta<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Green Forest<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n40<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marcal<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n40<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Planet<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pert<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n<40<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seventh Generation<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sofpac<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n40<\/font><\/td>\nPCF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charmin<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n0<\/font><\/td>\n0<\/font><\/td>\nECF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cottonelle<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n0<\/font><\/td>\n0<\/font><\/td>\nECF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kleenex<\/font><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n0<\/font><\/td>\n0<\/font><\/td>\nECF<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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I’ve always been curious if toilet paper is made from recycled paper, or if it’s made directly from trees \u2013 well now, the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) has provided a handy list of toilet paper brands (and other paper products) that use (or don’t use) recycled paper to make their product. Some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}