OH SHIT…for keks or is there something to this and US Canada trade relations?
A new report published by the New York-based environmental advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council revealed that the heavy use of toilet paper in the US is harming Canadian forests.
According the study, called ‘The Issue with Tissue’, the biggest US manufacturers of toilet paper and tissue products, such as Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark and Georgia-Pacific use virgin wood pulp from Canadian boreal forests, which means that they do not use recycled material. As a result, thousands of hectares of Canadian woods are cut down every year by industrial logging.
The report also says that an average American consumes three rolls of toilet paper a week, while the refusal of the biggest brands “to create more sustainable products makes consumers unwittingly complicit in flushing forests down the toilet.”
https://www.rt.com/business/452575-us-toilet-paper-canada-forests/