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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

HELP SAVE BOREAL FOREST by calling on Costco to use recycled or forest-free materials in its toilet paper

In the time it takes you to brush your teeth tonight, 's will lose three football fields of .

It's alarming, but the culprit is softer than you think: We're watching the boreal disappear before our eyes in part because uses boreal trees to make toilet paper.

ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/how

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CTV NewsHow a toilet paper boom is harming Canada's boreal forestBy Ryan Flanagan
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Years ago, the tremendous boreal spanned 1.5 billion acres of forested lands -- larger than all but six countries in the world.

These forested lands hosted large and small: On the ground, you could find Canadian , and even . In the treetops and skies above, nearly half of all North American rely on the forest during .

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

And if you look even higher -- up to our atmosphere -- you'll find another important benefit. The boreal's trees are a , soaking up enough each year to offset the global warming of 24 million cars.

Now, back to . Shelves lined with signature toilet paper can't compare with the beauty and majesty of forested lands in the world's "northern lungs."

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

sells a billion rolls of toilet paper each year. It's the company's best-selling item. Stacked on top of each other, those rolls would soar to heights of 300 million feet -- the same as 240,000 Empire State Buildings.

But those rolls don't come from thin air. They're chopped from the and flushed away to infinity.

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Vancouver SunU.S. plush toilet paper use wiping out Canada's forests, flushing away the future: reportBy Adrian Humphreys
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

It doesn't have to be this way. Other companies already use perfectly suitable alternatives, such as recycled paper, bamboo or even wheat straw.

Costco is just as capable of making this change and protecting the boreal forest in the process. But the company needs to hear from you.

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environmentoregon.webaction.orgTell Costco: Don't trade the boreal forest for toilet paperCanada's boreal forest is irreplaceable. Home to caribou, wolves, lynx, elk, billions of migratory birds and more -- countless creatures rely on the forest staying intact to survive. Plus, the boreal's trees remove enough carbon from the air each year to offset 24 million cars.
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Todd Edwardson

@anna_lillith or hear me out: bidets. It’s ludicrous we don’t promote bidet use everywhere.

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DoomsdaysCW

@anna_lillith And I wonder how much TP is still in storage from all the pandemic panic shopping.

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Alison Meeks

@anna_lillith Use hemp for this and other paper products.

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