Fun & Funky Recycled Paper 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?
Who Gives a Crap? sells these fab paper tissues, made from post-consumer waste, and sold in colourful cardboard boxes. Known mostly for its recycled paper toilet roll, it’s now ventured into making a few other products, to stop deforestation for simple household products.
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).
And this company donates 50% of profits to sanitation projects abroad, so that people have access to clean hygienic toilets.
Sold in boxes of 66 tissues, these are are free from scent and dye, and are strong 3-ply (the company says they are so strong, they can cope with the strongest sneezes – even ones that sound like a mini-scream!
At the website, you can buy 12 boxes for £18.00 (66 strong tissues each). And as we all know, a strong tissue means less tissues used). And shipping is free on most orders over £20.
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 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).
