Copper Bamboo "C" Toilet Roll Holder by Etsy Shop: CopperBamboo
My husband Joe works at a natural health foods store, Akin's Natural Foods Market, and last night he purchased our very first package of
bamboo toilet tissue! I couldn't be more thrilled! It is made out of
100% bamboo and thus is 100% TREE FREE! The company that makes this
particular bamboo toilet paper is Ultra Green, and I am inspired by the details about the product listed on their packaging:
Beyond Recycled Paper: Before recycled paper became "recycle paper", it
originally came from trees. Today, most manufacturers use either a blend
of recycled paper with tree pulp or 100% tree pulp to make bath tissue.
That's no way to save trees. Ultra Green uses 100% bamboo, a fast
growing natural resource. If everyone used this product, we would save
millions upon millions of trees.
Bamboo Forest Original Painting by Etsy Shop: Seafoam Gallery
This blog article was contributed by the Etsy Natural Healers Guild Team Leader Jessica of Eco-Friendly Freckles
Lovely idea but what about pandas and other creatures that depend on bamboo for home and sustenance. If bamboo forests are depeleted to make toilet paper isn't this just as bad as cutting down trees? contrary to popular belief bamboo isn't that fast growing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you there! Here in America we use an abundance of paper products versus bamboo, however in countries that the wildlife depends on bamboo as a food resource, it would be devastating to think that we are deforesting their bamboo forests. Wouldn't it be nice if we could use hemp paper products? It is a strong, durable material, it does grow fast and it enriches our soil. Why all the controversy over this beneficial resource when we import so much of this product into our country in the form of ready-made products like hemp yoga pants and hemp twine in the craft aisle at Wal-Mart?! I wish we could make some sort of change...I feel that although useful, plastics are the worst creation of man kind...they are ruining our sea life and oceans! Plastics are banned in many countries because the damage they cause to the environment! "Natural" is the answer! I have read that there is BPA (bisphenol A) found in some toilet tissue...I guess that means that we have plastics in our toilet paper?!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid 'mankind' as a rule has practically ruined this earth, sounds a bit cynical but it's near the mark. It just takes some ingenuity to think up some really good ways to recycle all the trash we generate. I'm sure there is a way but governments and big business won't allow it because of 'cost'. I didn't know there was a controversy over hemp actually. I'm from England :)
ReplyDeleteYou are right sista! It is the money greedy big business and corporate-run government that is pulling the strings and all they care about it making the most profit no matter how much it damages our environment! I think plastics should be banned! I am literally obsessed with "upcycling" nearly every piece of plastic that I come into contact with in hopes that I can repurpose and reuse it in some functional way because I hate to think that it will end up in a landfill or our precious ocean. The common alternative measure is "recycling" it, however I have found myself losing faith in the validity of our recycling system here. I have heard horror stories about the plastics not really getting recycled and either ending up in landfills or getting shipped to other countries for child slave shops to handle and deal with. It is absolutely devastating. I don't understand why our "disposable" plastic products that only have a "one-time-use life cycle" take hundreds of years to decompose! We should be using biodegradable materials for making things like disposable water bottles, baby diapers, and throw-away cutlery. According to research I've seen, and to treehugger.com, baby diapers that are "disposable" take up to 500 years to decompose in landfills! There are some enlightening and inspiring documentaries out there about this topic such as: "Bag It", "Plastic Planet", and "Addicted to Plastic". :-)
ReplyDeleteI totally 100% agree with you. I too have lost faith in 'recycling' here in England because I've spoken to someone who works in the local council run recycling plant and he told me that half of it doesn't get recycled at all but dumped on the land-fill. I still do recycle my plastics but I can't believe just how much of what I buy from my local store is overpackeaged in plastic. For example, two small danish pastries in a plastic box about twice their size! When I was a kid you bought them and the assistant would put them in a paper bag. But I've found a little use for these boxes, as seed planters. However, there is only so much I can do with all this plastic. You're so right...plastic planet is correct. However, I feel it intuitively that there will come a point where Mother Nature says enough and mankind will know it! After we've used everything up and abused our home...what then? I think the human race will become extinct. After all we are animals and why should we be so special?
ReplyDeleteYes, after seeing what has happened to our fish, birds, and other wildlife...I think we're next! Humans are not going to get out lucky. We manufacture the plastics and now the chemicals just might kill us! It's sad, but I think bad karma will make its way around! I really like the "Bag It" documentary; it investigates the effects of plastics on the human body...BPA is B-A-D! The worst is when people microwave their food in plastic containers...OH MY!
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