Bumboo: Boxes of Bumboo Facial Tissues
Each year, millions of tree are chopped down daily (mostly in Boreal forests that are home to moose, elk, wolves and grizzly bears), just to make facial tissues that are then wrapped in plastic. Just imagine the effect if everyone switched to recycled paper, bamboo or washable cotton tissues instead?
Bumboo Facial Tissues are made from bamboo, 70 sheets per box for teary or sneezy moments. For each sheet you buy from them, they wild double that area in nature. This company uses 100% bamboo.
Just bin these tissues for hygiene to naturally break down. Don’t flush them (they are thicker than toilet paper and could clog drains, and cause fatbergs and garden floods (which will not make you popular with your neighbours).
Bamboo offers a refreshing change from hardwood tissue products. It grows quickly, sometimes up to a metre a day, without the need for fertilisers or re-planting. Bamboo’s root system stays in place after harvest, holding soil and carbon. Its growth pulls in carbon dioxide even faster than young trees.
Industrial bamboo is not the same as fresh shoots, eaten by pandas. It’s not local, but the plants grow so fast, that as soon as they are harvested, new shoots spring right up, so it’s much better than chopping down trees, which often have to grow for 30 years, before harvesting (and are often home to birds and native wildlife).
How to Safely Blow Your Nose
If you have a cold or bunged up nose, here’s how to do it – advice from the expert to prevent making your ears pop, rupturing blood vessels, or forcing air into your middle ear (not good).
- Place one finger against one nostril and apply pressure.
- Take a breath, then gently blow the other side of your nose, into the tissue.
- Then do the same on the other side.
- Then wash your hands, avoid passing germs onto others.
