Recycled Paper Kitchen Towels (from cereal boxes!)

Serious Tissues Kitchen Roll are made in the Midlands from old cereal boxes and newspaper, sold in plastic-free packaging. Saving the planet and creating local jobs, each delivery includes 6 (or 12) rolls of jumbo 100-sheet rolls in thick 3-ply size.

Do not flush kitchen roll, it is designed to stay strong in water (so could block toilets). If the sheet is clean or lightly used, add (torn) to home compost. Oily sheets should be binned.

If using with cleaners, choose biodegradable cleaning brands (unscented for pregnancy/breastfeeding/babies and affected medical conditions). Avoid essential oils near pets (citrus oils are unsafe, so don’t use to clean floors/counters). 

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 flimsy kitchen rolls, that are then wrapped in plastic. Just imagine the effect if everyone switched to recycled paper, bamboo or reusable cloths instead?

Did you know that in Japan, nobody uses disposable paper towels? It’s because 11% of land is arable, so people there don’t have the luxury of creating landfills or even ‘industrial composting heaps’. If you’re fed up of sorting waste into two or three bins, know that residents of one Japanese town have to recycle into 45 categories.