Look for facial tissues made with recycled paper. Tissues are something that we wipe icky stuff on once, crumple, then throw away. And when we have bad allergies or colds the pile of tissues can certainly add up. So why do we need fresh, good quality paper for that? We don't really. These tissues save trees, which leaves more on the Earth to absorb green house gases and produce oxygen. What's not to love about trees? At first I thought I had to search far and wide for these recycled paper tissues, but I found them at my local Whole Foods Market. I haven't seen them in other local stores yet, but I hope to soon. If you cannot find them in stores but are dying for a box they are sold online as well. Good luck!
And even better, they're whitened without chlorine bleach! Chlorine can be super reactive and often forms dioxins (carcinogen) and other organochlorines.
ReplyDelete"Virtually all organochlorines that have been studied exhibit at least one of a range of serious toxic effects, such as endocrine dysfunction, developmental impairment, birth defects, reproductive dysfunction and infertility, immunosuppression, and cancer, often at extremely low doses…”
--1993 Consensus Statement
Amer. Public Health Assoc.
I know right! <3
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