Simple Ways to Be Green and Still Buy Paper Towels
Try not to get overwhelmed with finding paper towels that follow all these guidelines. If not all, try to get them to follow as many as you can.
Use 100% recycled, not virgin fibers
Gone are the days of the those brown scratchy recycled paper towels. They do still exist in the occasional public bathroom but they are not your only option when you choose recycled paper towels for your home.
Virgin fibers are fresh from a tree. Just think when you buy paper towels made from virgin fibers the tree is killed for something that can only be used once then thrown away to sit in the landfill.
Look for a higher post-consumer percentage
Even if a paper towel product is 100% recycled it often has a certain amount of pre and post consumer waste in it. Look for the highest post-consumer waste. Post-consumer waste comes from product you and others have recycled.
Use non-chlorine bleached
Non-chlorine bleached does not mean you have to buy brown color paper towel. You can still get the pretty white paper towels and help the environment. Just make sure the paper towels you buy are whitened with a non-chlorine bleach. Most paper towels that do not use chlorine are proud of that fact and state it on the packaging…
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