Will you make a difference today?

It's not really difficult to make the switch to a product that is more environmentally friendly. I think it's as easy as being armed with the right information. Let's say you're in the grocery store with your weekly list of must-have items. Toilet paper, paper towels, and facial tissues are usually good ones to start with. If you knew that our forests are being destroyed to make toilet paper, facial tissues, and paper towels would you then reach for a package that contained a 100% recycled product? Maybe? How about if you knew that if every household in the U.S. replaced just one triple pack of 70 sheet virgin paper towels with 100% recycled ones we could save 1,660,000 trees, 4.2 million cubic feet of landfill space – equal to 6,600 full garbage trucks, 590 million gallons of water – a year’s supply for 4,700 families of four! That’s just the paper towels.

If every household in the United States replaced just one box of virgin fiber facial tissues (175 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 582,000 trees, 1,500,000 cubic feet of landfill – equal to 2,200 garbage trucks, 210 million gallons of water – a year’s supply for 1,600 families of four, and avoid 35,000 pounds of chlorinated pollution. Let’s think about this for a second, this is a product that is generally used for “boogie patrol”. How fancy do you really need to be?

And 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, 1.0 million cubic feet of landfill space – equal to 1,600 full garbage trucks, 153 million gallons of water – a year’s supply for 1,200 families of four. I don’t think you need me to go into detail about the general use of this product.

And as you paid for these 100% recycled products you could walk out of that store knowing that YOU made a difference today. Of course, you’re carrying them out of the store in your reusable grocery bag…right?