Americans Use Bathroom Tissue from Non-Renewable Trees David
Gutierrez, staff write (NaturalNews) Environmentalists are
increasingly pushing for people in the United States to change
their toilet paper buying habits, in recognition of the fact
that the soft, fluffy toilet paper widely preferred in the
United States for home use can only be made by logging wild
forests throughout the Western Hemisphere. "No forest of any
kind should be used to make toilet paper," said Allen
Hershkowitz of the Natural Resource Defense Council. Toilet
paper can easily be made from recycled paper, but only at the
cost of a coarser final product. Manufacturers admit that the
primary factor that keeps them making toilet paper out of
freshly cut trees is the fact that standing trees yield longer
fibers than recycled material does. Longer fibers, in turn, make
for softer, fluffier toilet paper. Environmental groups estimate
that depending on the brand, between 25 and 50 percent of the
pulp used to make toilet paper comes from U.S. or