Frogfile: making green offices easier
November 11th, 2007 by jeanDo you know a business that espouses ‘green’ but uses virgin old-growth toilet paper? (Not that T.P. is ever labelled in that way.) Why does this happen? Could it be because the standard office supply catalogues offer no alternative?
Visit http://www.frogfile.com and consider making a change.
It might be like turning the Titanic, but until the bigger catalogues offer the green goods, it’s worth trying.
Why change to recycled toilet paper?
According to Greenpeace, if each household in Canada replaced 1 roll of virgin toilet paper with just 1 roll of recycled toilet paper, we’d save 47,962 trees, 3,204 cubic metres of landfill (181 garbage trucks), 65.5 million litres of water (a year’s supply for 135 families of four, and avoid 4,567 kilograms of air and water pollution from manufacturing.
All this for one roll of bum wipe.
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November 12th, 2007 at 1:37 am
You are the second person (besides me) that I know of who has commented on this (tp at the school that is). What’s worse is that our school uses KIMBERLY CLARK! Very bad. I know that we still don’t have good cleaners so that has been an issue. I tried to get them to join Greepeace’s “Forest 500″ Campaign. I passed the paperwork and everything onto Ronae and didn’t get any response. I think we have to go directly to the Practical Needs Committee - it is headed by Gerard Macintosh I think. Let me know if you want any help on this!