Comments on: Is there a danger lurking in our recycled toilet paper?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:08:41 +0000

I’ve known this for awhile but I find it still the better option. Some day I would love to go to at least cloths for #1 but for now I will keep using it. I worry more about eating BPA than wiping with it.

I’m guessing the amount isn’t that big. I believe I read it’s from the receipts.
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By: Frannie

Frannie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:57:32 +0000

REALLY? When does it end? I will say that in recent shopping trips I hadn’t bought any of my usual recycled TP for budgetary reasons and the fact that my silly Target doesn’t carry it. Well, and to be brutally honest, being 8 months pregnant and having two toddlers and a husband we BLOW through TP so I felt like I was buying it all the time, so to save a few bucks I was buying a regular (but not fluffy or supersized) brand and feeling quite guilty about it. So thanks for alleviating some guilt for me today!
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By: Gus Snarp

Gus Snarp — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:46:59 +0000

Good lord, is nothing safe?

Nevertheless I will still used recycled toilet paper and here’s why: ultimately, sometimes all the naysayers who say my environmental efforts are a meaningless drop in the bucket are partly correct. In this case, my toilet paper is a drop in the bucket, but my dollars are not. We need industry to stop using these chemicals so that products, including toilet paper, are safer. We need recycling to be a viable business, which means we need a market for recycled paper, as well as dropping off our paper to be recycled. So, I think I am more effective in creating a market for recycled paper than I am in avoiding the BPA that may be in my toilet paper. Meanwhile, we need to create pressure on the companies that are producing products with BPA.

Also, I think the science is sketchy here, pollution sources across a watershed are incredibly difficult to track, so I’m not sure recycled toilet paper (which frankly is not popular) is the biggest source of BPAs in water. Also, if the original paper ends up in the landfill, the BPA can still leach into groundwater.

The presence of BPA in the first place makes a lose lose situation. I do think I will stop recycling thermal printed paper, though.

This is one of those places where one must make a choice for oneself as to what is best, and there’s no one right answer.

By: Doreen

Doreen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:35 +0000

PureMothers – looks like I have to move to London!

By: PureMothers

PureMothers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:10 +0000

My family just moved to London (an entire green shift and adjustment from suburb to city living), but I’ve found organic cotton toilet paper here called “Cotton Soft”. It’s unbleached, 100% organic cotton – no pesticides, no inks, dyes or perfumes, not tested on animals and so on. It’s made by The Cloudy Bay Cotton Company (www.cloudybaycotton.com) in the UK. I’m not thrilled that it’s 4 rolls are wrapped in plastic – but EVERYTHING in London is wrapped in plastic. So disturbing.
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