Bumboo: Boxes of Bamboo Facial Tissues
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.
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
Here is advice from those who know (doctors etc)!
Apparently most of us don’t blow our hooters properly, and this can lead to not just making us feel more uncomfortable with a cold, but can make ears pop, rupture blood vessels and even force air into the middle ear (not good).
So next time you come down with the sniffles:
- Place one finger against your nostril, and apply pressure.
- Take a breath, then gently blow the other nostril into a tissue.
- Do the same on the other side.
- Wash your hands, to avoid passing germs onto others.
The Paper Tissue Waste Fiasco
If you use disposable tissues, choosing recycled paper or bamboo versions is a better choice for hospitals and those that need them for travel or hygiene.
In the UK alone, over 5 million tonnes of used disposable facial tissues end up on landfills. And due to the contents in them (yuk!), they can’t be recycled.
Also remember that most paper tissues on sale in stores are sold in plastic packaging. Although in theory this can be recycled these days, in many cases it isn’t (and littered packs on streets result in plastic going down storm drains and into the sea).
