CBC discusses how U.S. toilet paper production is wiping out Canada’s boreal forest, report claims. An environmental group says toilet paper companies are fuelling deforestation. The forest industry disagrees.
The toilet paper crisis of 2020 will probably be remembered as a strange and humorous aside to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But a new report from the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council says there’s a different but more worrisome toilet paper crisis now looming in Canada, and it’s driving global climate change.
The Issue with Tissue 2.0: How the tree-to-toilet pipeline fuels our climate crisis, claims a significant portion of virgin wood fibre from the one million acres of Canadian boreal forest clear-cut every year goes to large American toilet paper producers.