Which is stupid because these can be made from recycled fibers and lumber yard leftovers.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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Where do people think that non recycled paper comes from?
I thought it primarily came from farms and managed forests.
In some places it might. And i guess in a sense all forests are managed....
But yeah paper comes from trees. Trees grow in forests. Sawmills sell a lot of their chips and sawdust to pulp mills.
I'm pretty sure (most of?) the patches of boreal forest in question are managed.
Boreal just means northern and not the coastal rainforests or something. Y'know, the trees we have an almost endless amount of.
Its more economical to produce a low-value but high volume product as close to where its being used.
Were people thinking that their big bulky packs of toilet paper were being shipped by boat across the pacific from china? The shipping cost would wipe out any profits.
Yeah, there's a lot of trees up there, and they're the kind that grow back reasonably fast. We should hope that's where our paper is coming from.
It's the white, textured roll kind of paper towels.
I was thinking of those brown paper towels to wipe your hands with... e.g.:
https://www.pro.cascades.com/en/products/h105-roll-paper-towel-1000-2/
There's a big smelly plant in Scarborough at Midland and Progress that recycles cardboard and paper to make boxes and paper towels like the above. It's not pretty but it's great for sustainability I figure.
The top three major American tissue makers—P&G, Kimberly-Clark, and Georgia-Pacific—earned “F” scores across each of their flagship brands like Charmin, Cottonelle, and Quilted Northern across all five editions of NRDC’s Issue with Tissue scorecard.
Basically, it's the best brands in terms of functionality and comfort.
Small dish cloths. I haven't used a paper towel in years
Yep. Dumb, sensational article. Managed northern forests are where you want your wood to come from.
This group gives better scores to bamboo products that have to be shipped around the world with fossil fuels, wiping out most of the carbon-negativity that comes from harvesting woody plants. Once again, the forest is missed for the trees in the environmental movement, so to speak.
Yeah, we could get a perfect score if we destroyed all the coastal rainforests and replaced them with bamboo plantations.
boreal that can't be real