Environmentalists have a new target: Charmin toilet paper

[TexasTowelie]

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble faces pressure from environmentalists to clean up its act.

More than 150 groups are pushing the maker of Charmin toiler paper and Bounty paper towels to use recycled materials in its products. Currently, neither of those products uses recycled paper, and about one-third of it is sourced from Canada's boreal forest — a large swath of virgin forest that rings the Arctic Circle and acts as a critical check on climate change.

"It's just unacceptable that a company like P&G is making toilet paper, a product that is used for seconds and flushed, from virgin pulp," said Shelley Vinyard, boreal corporate campaign manager for the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of several dozen protesters at P&G's annual shareholders meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Tuesday.

The NRDC likens Canada's vast forests to "the Amazon of North." Replacing just half of P&G's virgin pulp usage with recycled content "would dwarf the company's current climate commitments," the NRDC said in a letter to the company that was co-signed by 150 other activist groups.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charmin-toilet-paper-puts-procter-gamble-p-g-in-environmentalists-crosshairs/

[enid602]

1. beware

Beware of recycled toilet paper. They recycle a lot of paper (supermarket register paper and movie ticket paper) that are treated with BPA.

[JudyM]

3. Thanks for this info.

Here’s one potential solution: http://www.sustainablebabysteps.com/recycled-toilet-paper.html

[NNadir]

4. Is it actually the case that mild exposure to BPA is a more serious issue than climate change?

Which will have more effect on human health, malaria mosquitoes in Massachusetts, or wiping your butt with material that might have a trace of BPA?

93% of people over the age of 6 have measurable BPA in their urine. Are they all dead?

We should really work to strike some balance. In many areas we are out of our minds, particularly when we interpret risk.

[enid602]

5. Bpa

BPA and mucous membrane tissue is not a good match.

[NNadir]

6. Really? There must be a lot of very sick people around.

According to this Canadian study, 90% of pregnant women and 40% of new born infants had detectable BPA in the urine:

Science of the Total Environment, Volume 508, 1 March 2015, Pages 575-584

And look, this was a GC/MS method with a rather high LOD,, not an LC/MS/MS method that might have measured picograms, so it must be very, very, very dire. We're talking micrograms per ml here.

All these people who participated in this study must be very, very, very, very sick, so sick as to justify destroying a forest important to the planetary climate.

I apologize and admit that, shit, we should tear up the boreal forest, shred it for toilet paper, rather than have our asses wiped with something containing BPA.

I may have stumbled into the wrong forum by mistake.

I apologize for that as well.

[Phoenix61]

2. I stopped using Charmin because of this. nt