Product Reviewed: President’s Choice Green 2-Ply Toilet Paper
Place of Purchase: Jewel-Osco
Purchase Price: 10 for $10 on sale
Product replaced: Non-green toilet paper, like Charmin, Cottonelle, and Quilted Northern
Ingredients: 100% post-consumer paper. Clean and sanitary without the addition of chlorine bleach*. Some of the recycled paper in this product may have been bleached with chlorine when originally manufactured.
Use: For any sensitive area you need to wipe!
Results: It works great! It isn’t rough. It didn’t leave dingleberries behind (those are those, uh, crumbs). This product is as soft as its non-green counterparts, without the use of bleach or other chemicals. I came away from the experience with a clean behind! Yeah, I said “dingleberries,” and, “clean behind”.
Best of all: The product boasts post-consumer product, forming demand for a second-use of this useful fiber product as well as reducing demand for virgin fibers. It also is a diversion for material that is often slated for landfills.
Why try it? Because it’s far greener than the product you are likely currently using for wiping your behind. It’s also quite affordable.
The drawback: At 176 sheets per roll, the company would do well to double that amount, in order to get the most from the packaging. Meaning, more paper would go into less needed plastic packaging. It would also mean less cardboard used for the inner rolls, because fewer rolls would be used.
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March 30th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
[...] have not had any trouble with reycled content toilet paper — it really can be quite soft! I reviewed President’s Choice TP last year and have yet to try some other brands, like Marcal, the oldest recycled paper [...]
June 4th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hi, I bought the Marcal, but it is a bit expensive. I was going to try Presidents Choice, but I couldn’t find the 100% Recycled Paper marking anywhere, so I passed it by… Is all the President’s Choice brand made from recycled paper or only a certain kind?