🌎 The demand for paper products is still high. 15% of global deforestation is caused by toilet paper products.

16 Million trees are literally flushed down the toilet every year in the form of toilet paper! More than 27,000 trees are cut down each day just to make toilet paper each day. 

Approximately 90% of the world's paper is manufactured from wood pulp, and only 1% of paper is made from non-wood sources in the United States. 

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It can take decades for a forest to be able to clean the air from constantly produced pollution, and making paper from these forests is far from sustainable. 

Every year, over 900 million trees are harvested for the purpose of producing paper.

These harvested trees can take over 30 years to regrow.

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In Australia alone, over 3 million trees could be saved if we all switched to bamboo. 

The more people who switch to Tree-Free paper, renew, reuse & recycle, the greater the message to the government and the world.

 

Bamboo difference:

• Bamboo is one of the world’s fastest-growing plants, capable of growing up to three feet in 24 hours. Bamboo grows about 39 inches in a single day making it a much more sustainable resource than virgin wood. It requires little water, and no fertilizer, and regenerates on its own after cutting. The more regularly bamboo is harvested, the faster it grows.

• It belongs to the grass family, or Poaceae, a family of plants characterized by long, slender leaves and hollow stems. Unlike trees, most grasses reach their full height in a single growing season compared to decades. 

• Bamboo absorbs 35% more CO₂ per hectare than equivalent plants and can grow up to 39 inches in just one day. That means that bamboo is ultra-replenishable in addition to helping reduce deforestation (15% of deforestation is due to toilet paper production).

• Water preservation: it takes 30% less water to make bamboo toilet paper than regular toilet paper! One roll of Bamboo TP takes around 0.59 gallons of water. One roll of conventional TP takes 37 gallons of water!

• Bamboo is 100% biodegradable.

 

✅ FSC Certified: FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. FSC Certified toilet paper means the source comes from certified mills and farms. Purchasing FSC-certified TP helps protect the forests of local communities and even helps people rebuild their forest homes. Purchasing FSC-certified TP helps prevent deforestation, including the conversion of natural forests into plantations.

✅ Totally Chlorine - Free versus Elemental Chlorine Free. To be sure that your TP is made without any chlorine, we need to get it only when they state Total Chlorine Free  (TCF), Elemental Chlorine-free still uses chlorine!

TCF (if you can find it, pick ECF)

 

Elemental Chlorine-Free (ECF): use of chlorine oxide instead of chlorine gas to whiten tissue

ECF method, which means they are better than the standard bleaching method. TCF is still preferred!

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The best 

✅ Organic Bamboo TP

✅ FSC certification

✅ BPA-free

✅ TCF (if you can't find it, pick ECF)

✅ Panda -Friendly 🐼

✅ 100% Plastic-free packaging

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🍃 Simply making the switch to alternative eco-friendly tree-free paper products can have a far greater impact than you can even imagine !🐠 🐙 🐢