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Green to the Extreme?

By admin ⋅ March 6, 2010 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Though many have switched over to cloth diapers and cloth baby wipes to hold and clean-up their babies’ messes, the majority of people, if asked, would consider it green to the extreme to use cloth wipes to clean up their own restroom needs.

Jennifer Grayson of The Huffington Post responded to a reader’s eco-inquiry in her post, Eco Etiquette: Reusable Toilet Paper – Too Gross For Comfort. The question went something like this…a woman visited a friend’s apartment and when she went to use the restroom she couldn’t find any toilet paper – only “a stack of multicolored cloths in a basket”. Realizing she was supposed to use those to wipe herself clean she skipped the potty break until she got back to her own place. Her question to Grayson? “Are people really doing this? Isn’t it unsanitary?”

Grayson’s response? “Yes, people are doing this, though at present the practice of employing reusable cloth in lieu of toilet paper…seems relegated to what marketing gurus would call the ‘dark green’ consumer.”

To be upfront I don’t personally use reusable toilet paper, though I can’t say I haven’t considered it. I relish my soft, 2-ply Angel Soft, but wince when I read the Greenpeace’s recent release of its first Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide “Americans could save more than 400,000 trees if each family bought a roll of recycled toilet paper-just once.”

In an interview with James Malone of Georgia Pacific, which makes Quilted Northern, Robert Roy Britt reported that “…soft tissue comes from the first-generation paper made directly from trees, rather than recycled paper.”

Does this make me want to jump on over to purchase a package of family wipes? Maybe not. Okay, definitely not. But if you want the poop…er…I mean SCOOP on replacing toilet paper with reusable, washable toilet wipes, you’ll find answers here.

And if maybe you just want to switch your baby over and see if you can handle that much, we’ve got a few choices in cloth baby wipes for ya.

Time to sound out.
Have you made the switch?
Plan on it?
Think I’m crazier than a bald-headed triangle?

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