Product Review: President’s Choice Green Bathroom Tissue
By Wesley Joseph • Jul 26th, 2008 • Category: Household, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction
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Product Reviewed: President’s Choice Green 2-Ply Toilet Paper
Place of Purchase: Jewel-Osco
Purchase Price: 10 for $10 on sale
Product replaced: Non-green toilet paper, like Charmin, Cottonelle, and Quilted Northern
Ingredients: 100% post-consumer paper. Clean and sanitary without the addition of chlorine bleach*. Some of the recycled paper in this product may have been bleached with chlorine when originally manufactured.
Use: For any sensitive area you need to wipe!
Results: It works great! It isn’t rough. It didn’t leave dingleberries behind (those are those, uh, crumbs). This product is as soft as its non-green counterparts, without the use of bleach or other chemicals. I came away from the experience with a clean behind! Yeah, I said “dingleberries,” and, “clean behind”.
Best of all: The product boasts post-consumer product, forming demand for a second-use of this useful fiber product as well as reducing demand for virgin fibers. It also is a diversion for material that is often slated for landfills.
Why try it? Because it’s far greener than the product you are likely currently using for wiping your behind. It’s also quite affordable.
The drawback: At 176 sheets per roll, the company would do well to double that amount, in order to get the most from the packaging. Meaning, more paper would go into less needed plastic packaging. It would also mean less cardboard used for the inner rolls, because fewer rolls would be used.
EHI There! What green products are you using that you love? What products are you trying to replace? Got an idea for a product you would like to be reviewed? We welcome guest columnists; just contact us!
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Wesley Joseph is the primary editor for EHI. He comes from a strong political science background and is interested in the effect humans' actions have on the environment, how in turn the environment affects humans, and how environmental policy at large and personal actions can both change into positive envirohuman impacts.
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