This is exactly what other bamboo-based toilet roll companies – both Bazoo and Bumboo who are based in the UK. They sell both unwrapped and wrappped versions of their loo rolls. Read my Bumboo toilet paper review and Bazoo toilet roll review here. The other statistic people use, 27,000 trees per day from 2010, has been removed from National Geographic so is not a credible source). A small amount of paper is produced using alternatives to chlorine such as oxygen, ozone, and hydrogen peroxide. This process is known as Totally Chlorine Free (TCF). Brands like Cushelle have been linked to 1 million acres of deforestation a year in the Canadian Boreal forest which holds more carbon than any other forest.

Firstly, you’re shopping with a sustainable and eco-friendly online company. Secondly, you actually get a lot of toilet roll for your money. Who Gives A Crap is an Australian company founded by Simon, Jehan and Danny, and headquartered in Victoria, South-East Australia. Passionate about toilet paper, and helping improve toilet access across the globe, they launched their start-up after a crowdfunding campaign in 2012. Zero-waste living, remember, aims use only that which can be reused or composted, rather than sent to landfills or incinerated. Buying in bulk is cost-effective, working out at 23p 100sheets for recycled toilet paper and 27p per for bambooThese are the benefits for consumers and the environment, but it doesn’t stop there. The brand is doing big and impressive things with its business model to help the people who most need it. As part of their mission, Who Gives A Crap donates 50% of their profits to causes that help give people access to clean water and a toilet. When I run the numbers to compare this product to others ranked by the NRDC report, this looks like a solid C (but could be higher if more information were available). This puts it behind six other papers graded A and two with a B grade. I will say that this is a company that has great potential. They’re great marketers. Their product seems to be well-liked. I like that they are a B Corporation, and they seem to be funding good things in the developing world. If they would clean up their act on transparency and truly demonstrating how green their product is, as does their competition, then I’ll be a believer. Reply I suppose a lot of this is down to personal preference and I think it’s hard to figure out which is the most eco-friendly. I went into more detail about eco-friendly toilet paper here and discuss alternatives to toilet paper as well. Forest Friendly Tissues

This way, you can make an informed choice when moving away from mainstream toilet paper which may contribute to 1.9 million trees being cut down each day, according to a study commissioned by WGAC. Of course, toilet paper is also bleached to change it from brown to white, as this is what most consumers prefer now due to the ‘sparkly white’ marketing by mainstream toilet roll brands. Disclaimer: I was sent a box of Who Gives A Crap recycled toilet paper to try out. This review is genuine and honest. Who are Who Gives A Crap?Proper environmental reporting gives a greater understanding of where emissions are being emitted, which allows for reduction targets to be set, reduction plans to be put in place and hopefully actions at the end of it all. Big corporations are also well-known for putting independent companies out of business due to their control over the market and exploitation of their overseas supply chains. However, WGAC are looking into non-whitened bamboo toilet paper which is exciting and encouraging. Are Who Gives A Crap sustainable? If you’d like to read more about it, the NRDC recently released their third sustainability “report card” for common toilet paper brands and both Who Gives A Crap 100% Recycled TP and Premium 100% Bamboo TP are on the list: “The Issue with Tissue 2021 Scorecard.” I look forward to them finding an alternative to sellotape, but other than those small niggles I really have no complaints. The toilet paper and tissues were lovely and soft and because each roll has 370 sheets they do last far longer than you’d expect.

Pricier than the other 2 options and you also can’t buy just 24 rolls, however these are the ‘fun’ loo rolls. Definitely a good option if you have children or if you spend a little bit of time on the loo. The wrappers are all puzzles where you have to find a toilet. Think Where’s Wally but instead of searching for a stripy jumper you’re looking for a loo. The box the rolls come in is also nice, including the inside of it which you could give to your children to use for colouring in the fun designs. Where’s The Loo Edition – Bamboo Toilet Paper Bamboo or Recycled Toilet Paper? Confusingly, some brands say they are unbleached when they mean that they are TCF. Others say they are chlorine-free and it’s not clear whether they mean ECF or TCF. Bamboo grows 30 times faster than trees and does not require toxic pesticides to grow, which makes it a sustainable replacement for tree pulp. Made with 100% recycled fibres coming from post consumer waste paper sources such as schools and officesWho Gives a crap give 50% of their profits to help build toilets in developing countries, they are made from 100% recycled paper and they are biodegradable. These toilet rolls are individually wrapped in colourful recyclable paper, not plastic. You can even reuse the paper wrap. For every toilet roll bought, Serious Tissues will also plant a tree. So far they’ve planted over 1.4 million trees. They use a few different companies to do this, details of which haven’t been given. I use Ecologi for my tree planting and carbon offsetting who are brilliant. So, how are Serious Tissues carbon neutral? Both types of toilet rolls are also really long. At 400 and 370 sheets per roll, this number can be double the length of your usually supermarket toilet papers, such as Andrex, Velvet and the like. This makes the price per sheet very competitive. While not exactly ­zero waste, they do provide atree-freeway to be less wasteful about your wiping. For me, I was obsessed with the idea of no longer buying rolls of toilet paper that came in that annoyingly thin clear plastic that’s so hard for consumers to recycle. And the onus falls on to us to deal with it, not the huge companies producing it.

YourBestDigs.com chose the toilet papers they were reviewing after extensive research to see which toilet paper brands represented the most popular choices out there, along with a few alternative newcomers. These are less than half the amount of sheets for both the recycled toilet paper and bamboo toilet paper from Who Gives A Crap. Who Gives A Crap Discount Code UKThe premium Who Gives a Crap bamboo toilet paperis definitely softer, although the difference to us was not enough to switch to bamboo. Worth knowing that Who Gives a Crapethicallysources their bamboo from localized family farms in the Sichuan Province. They partnered with Edge Environment, an impact consultancy, to do a Life Cycle Assessment on its products which helped them calculate a carbon footprint. Who Gives A Crap’s toilet paper, both the recycled and bamboo, are not as soft as the leading “traditional” toilet paper brands, but after a few uses you really don’t notice anything.