I will admit that I have never thought of using reusable toilet paper! Sure, there’s No Impact Man and his going TP-free… this is an interesting thing to think about, but I have to admit that I don’t think I’m quite ready for this tiny choice! :)

according to the NRDC, both Marcel and 7th Generation are 100% recycled… and I know which one is cheaper and more easily available! (hint to those who have EVER bought toilet paper: it’s Marcal.) Though the 7th Generation is 80% post consumer recycled paper and the Marcal is only 40%.

I usually purchase Marcal, because it’s available at my local supermarket, and yep it’s 100% (40% PCC) recycled–and it’s cheap!

Also, I’m currently reading Garbageland by Elizabeth Royte, and read this last night:

“What do you think of this?” I said, showing him the high postconsumer recycled content of my brand, Marcal.

“Pretty good, very good,” he [the NRDC’s Allen Hershkowitz] said.

Why, then, didn’t Marcal advertise its green credentrials, like Seventh Generation (which cost nine cents more, even at my food co-op, for a roll half as long)? “People care a great deal about what they use on their bottom. Even though it’s there for only only five seconds. I timed it.”

“If it’s recycled, some people feel its quality is less or that it’s less clean,” said Peter Marcalus, senior vice president for recovered materials at Marcal, In New Jersey, when I phoned him later. “I’ve had countless people t public meetings say to me, ‘I just can’t understand how you get my used tissue clean again.’”