Plant Paper: Non-Toxic Toilet Paper
**This product cannot be shipped. In store pick up only** PlantPaper was designed in response to an industry and an hygienic practice in dire need of an update. In the early 20th century, after centuries of wiping with stones, sponges, shirttails and corn cobs, we started using paper made of virgin tree pulp, chlorine, formaldehyde and a host of other toxic chemicals—a scorched earth approach to cleanliness—and haven’t stopped since. The hidden costs of this practice are appalling: 27,000 trees per day flushed down the world’s toilets, including thousands of acres of boreal forest per minute; 37 gallons of water per roll; and over a gallon of bleach, formaldehyde and other chemicals per roll. And we now know that the very chemicals that make our toilet paper so white and fluffy also make it the cause of UTIs, fissures, vulvar irritation, and hemorrhoids. There is nothing clean about toilet paper as we know it. Conventional toilet paper relies on trees cut down in the Canadian borea