Saving over a million trees is possible if we all just Wipe Right 26AUG19

NO reason to be grossed out or embarrassed talking about this, we all do it 😉 AND this is not the first time I have posted on this issue, you can go to my post in MAY and sign the petition from SumOfUs to Costo telling them to change to recycled toilet paper. This from NRDC.....

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For nearly a month, the Amazon rainforest — "the Earth's lungs" — has been on fire. This tragedy affects us all, and is yet another terrible reminder about climate change, how fragile the world's forests are, and how much work needs to be done. Today is National Toilet Paper Day, a day to act to protect another of the Earth's critical carbon-storing forests — the boreal forests of northern Canada. These majestic forests store huge amounts of our climate-busting carbon pollution. But the boreal is also being cut at a dizzying rate… much of it to make toilet paper. And right now, too many toilet paper brands use 100% virgin forest fiber that often comes from clear-cut ancient trees and old-growth forests — like the Canadian boreal. But there's something that we can do to help stop the destruction of the old-growth boreal forest — We Wipe Right. By pledging to switch from 100% virgin forest fiber toilet paper to 100% recycled, each wipe can help save trees and reduce greenhouse gas pollution and also let companies know you want them to switch to making products that don't flush our forests down the toilet. Take the pledge to Wipe Right and save our trees — and our climate — by switching to 100% recycled toilet paper. Help us reach our goal of 100,000 pledges, and find out which toilet paper brands are best for the environment. Never underestimate the importance of toilet paper in our fight against climate change: Destroying forests to make toilet paper is a threat not just to our environment and our climate, but to hundreds of Indigenous communities, iconic boreal caribou, billions of songbirds, and other wildlife that call this ancient forest home. Too many toilet paper brands use 100% virgin forest fiber that often comes from clear-cut ancient trees and old-growth forests — including Canada's boreal forest. But, if every person in the U.S. replaced just one roll of toilet paper made from trees with a roll made with 100% recycled materials, we could save 1,083,000 carbon-storing trees. So, what can we do to help stop the destruction of the old-growth boreal forest? We Wipe Right. Take the pledge to Wipe Right and help us reach our goal of 100,000 pledges. By taking the pledge, you'll be on your way to becoming a more conscious consumer of toilet paper and other paper goods. We'll even share more information and resources with you that will give you the rundown on what brands are the most sustainable. So, in honor of National Toilet Paper Day, help us reach 100,000 pledges by taking the pledge to Wipe Right for our environment. Then find out which toilet paper brands are best for the planet. Thanks, and happy National Toilet Paper Day! Shelley Vinyard Boreal Corporate Campaign Manager, NRDC

The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Costco: protect the boreal forests and use recycled pulp in your toilet paper 25MAI19

I am a Costo customer and have participated in petition campaigns to Costo to get them to change company policies and practices for the benefit of the planet. Costco does respond to public pressure so I hope you will not only sign this petition to Costo but will also stop buying Kirkland toilet paper until Costo agrees to make their toilet paper with a minimum of 50% post consumer recycled materials. 

Canada’s boreal forests are being flushed down the toilet and Costco’s Kirkland brand is one of the worst offenders. It’s time for Costco to clean up its act and switch to post-consumer recycled materials.  SIGN THE PETITION  Toilet paper is destroying Canada’s vast and majestic old-growth Boreal forests, worsening climate change, endangering wildlife, and affecting hundreds of Indigenous communities across the country. And there’s no good reason this should be happening. According to a new report from our friends at the NRDC and Stand.earth, Costco’s Kirkland brand is one of the worst offenders. It uses 100% virgin pulp that comes from these precious forests when it could be using recycled materials and protecting them instead. Other major tissue producers like Kimberly-Clark, who make Cottenelle, have plans to cut virgin pulp content in half by 2025 and stop millions of acres of pristine boreal forest from being flushed down the toilet. So why is Costco doing nothing? Toilet paper is Costco's biggest selling item so committing to more recycled content would make a major difference to the boreal forests. Not only that, it would pile on the pressure for stubborn tissue giants like Proctor and Gamble to get on board with making the change. Together we can change the entire tissue industry and protect the precious boreal forests. Tell Costco to be responsible to the planet and switch to minimum 50% post-consumer recycled materials! The Canadian boreal forest is the largest intact forest in the world, covering almost 60% of Canada and home to 600 Indigenous communities. The forest is a critical proponent in the fight against climate change, as it stores the carbon equivalent of nearly twice the world’s recoverable oil reserves in its soil. Over the last twenty years, 28 million acres of Canadian boreal forest have been cut down to make toilet paper, roughly the size of Pennsylvania. Toilet paper companies don’t have to use virgin pulp. Corporations like Seventh Generation make 100% post-consumer recycled toilet paper and provide a great alternative. It’s time that Costco did the same. Together, with our friends at the NRDC and Stand.earth, SumOfUs is working to shift the entire tissue industry to protect our forests and mitigate climate change. SumOfUs has forced corporations to use environmentally friendly solutions before. When we found that out Starbucks hadn’t kept its promise to serve a 100% recyclable paper cup, almost 400,000 members just like yourself pressured the world’s largest corporate coffee chain to make good on their promise. And it worked! Starbucks committed to produce a fully recyclable and compostable cup within the next three years. With Costco, there’s no time to lose. It’s time for it to end its wasteful and destructive practices, and finally, put the people and the planet ahead of its own profits. Will you call on Costco to switch to minimum 50% post-consumer recycled materials?  SIGN THE PETITION  Thanks for all that you do, Amelia, Angus, Lisa and the team at SumOfUs More information: Wiped out: America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests, The Guardian, 01 March 2019 The Issue with Tissue: How the U.S. Is Flushing Forests Away, NRDC, 20 February 2019

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VIDEO OF NRDC'S ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORIES IN 2011

FOR everyone who participated in any of the NRDC's environmental campaigns in 2011....check out the video on the battles won.....

Watch this inspiring 90-second video of all the victories you made possible over the past year. Then please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible gift so that NRDC can go right on defending wildlife and wild places in 2012. Your support of NRDC made a world of difference to endangered wildlife and wild places in 2011. I hope you’ll watch this short video of all the important victories you made possible over the past 12 months. This inspiring footage is narrated by NRDC Member and Academy Award nominee David Strathairn. David enumerates campaign after campaign where your online actions and your generous support made the critical difference … ... You helped us prevail in court over trophy hunters, who wanted to strip the polar bear of its federal protection. ... You helped us save almost 10 million acres of the Alaskan Rainforest from logging and road building. ... And together, we helped persuade President Obama to put a hold on the destructive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which threatens our forests, our climate and our health. There were big wins as well for beluga whales, Yellowstone’s buffalo, the Boreal forest and many more -- all made possible thanks to your strong support. You see, even as this year winds down, our fight for nature is not slowing down at all. We’ll continue working -- even through the holidays -- to protect wildlife and wild places that are now under attack: We’re mobilizing continent-wide opposition to the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline that would endanger some of the world’s last Spirit Bears and their rainforest home along the rugged coast of British Columbia. We’re waging several courtroom battles to stop Shell from drilling next summer in Alaska’s Polar Bear Seas. We’re fighting to stop Anglo American and other foreign companies that want to build one of the world’s biggest open-pit mines in the heart of Alaska’s Bristol Bay wilderness. That’s why, after you watch this impressive video wrap-up of the past year’s victories, I hope you’ll feel moved to make a tax-deductible gift today so that NRDC can go right on defending wildlife and wild places in 2012. Make no mistake: It’s because of you that NRDC is so highly regarded -- by friend and foe alike -- as America’s most effective advocate for the environment. It is your online activism and financial support that stand behind every single victory we won in 2011. And that is why I look forward to having you fighting alongside us again in 2012. Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council