Don’t feel guilty: Use soft toilet paper on your derriere

- Patrick Moore, Special to the Sun March 5, 2009 Greenpeace, with strong support from the Natural Resources Defense Council, has come out against the sale of soft toilet tissue made with "virgin" fibre. It claims that using trees to make toilet paper is worse for the environment than driving Hummers or building McMansions.

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My old organization wants Canadians to use recycled paper for TP and it's targeting Kimberly-Clark, Procter and Gamble, and other large tissue producers. Apparently hair shirts aren't sufficient, now we must wipe with scratchy paper to rid ourselves of eco-guilt. It makes a good story and news outlets around the world have dutifully picked it up. But it is absolute nonsense, for a number of reasons. Not only toilet paper, but also paper in general, is made from waste from sawmills that are providing lumber to build our homes and furniture. When North American forests are harvested, all the logs that are suitable for making lumber are sawn for that purpose. Lumber is worth more than paper, so no lumber company would be foolish enough to chip logs that are suitable for making 2x4s. More....

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