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now it's just a matter of deciding what's worse - buying plastic wrapped toilet paper from the grocery store, or buying paper wrapped toilet paper that needs to be shipped to you on a gas eating UPS truck!

They need to start selling this stuff in stores! Or maybe the more mainstream brands will get on board and start wrapping in paper as well!

With each roll at $.58, this isn't a very good price on TP. I can get the non-recycled stuff cheaper. They need to bring down the cost if they want to tempt people into trying it.

or there's always this option...

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28092896

but all else aside, even if nonrecycled TP can cut down on it's packaging or use recyclable packaging, it'd still be a major step in the right direction.

remember to recycle the cardboard tube!

I was about to say what mangosteen already has. I *want* to use recycled toilet paper. But the shipping slightly negates the greenness. Granted, it's killing less trees, but it's a give and take. I read somewhere that kleenex brand's parent company refuses to use recycled packaging, but i wish they would.

The cost of "green" items vs. non green items is not always an issue for some people. I agree that the shipping the thing stinks, but if you're going to buy toilet paper at a grocery store, that too was shipped. Is there such thing as local toilet paper? Haha. P.S. Kleenex brand is terrible for the environment.

Sarahc,

Yes, it's true, all toilet paper is shipped in some way or the other, it's just the details that are different.

I didn't include this in the post, because I couldn't find which store, but when I was looking this up I did see pictures of Ever-Green being sold in a grocery store... Happy Hunting.

Rachel

Shopping online for items can actually be greener if there is no retail outlet since the items are stored in a warehouse that probably has lower operating costs than a store that requires more lighting, limited storage space due to marketing and shopping needs, and the transportation costs involved in shipping to multiple different stores (and then your own transportation in getting there, unless you walk/bike).

I'd like to see this TP with more post-consumer content. Only a min of 20%? I don't need uber-white TP.

Even better than recycled toilet paper; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time. Get serious and add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. Now we're talking green and helping the environment without any pain. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.