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I don’t know about you, but I despise advertisements for toilet paper almost as much as I despise advertisements for prescription drugs (worse than toilet paper ads only because of the endless lists of possible side effects…as far as I know, toilet paper does not have side effects).<\/p>\n
Okay, you say, why on earth is Ellen writing about toilet paper? Well, it’s a paper product that Americans have used with abandon, unlike most of the rest of the world. And, we use bleached products, by and large.<\/p>\n
In a recent Utne<\/a> piece, I learned that toilet paper producers actually may add brown coloring to toilet paper to signal the product’s “greeness.” Still, Americans are reluctant to use toilet paper made from recycled materials.<\/p>\n The now-defunct (1992-2000) Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue.<\/p><\/div>\n With the cost of recycled paper products much lower now, I have taken the leap to “brown” recycled paper products. It’s like the early days of household recycling–or seatbelt use: once adopted, these practices become habitual and I feel self-conscious or guilty or naked if I ignore them. Here’s a link<\/a> to a wiki article on recycling paper.<\/p>\n Is this more than you wanted to know about me–that my household uses toilet paper made from recycled materials?<\/p>\n Well, I’m gonna take this one step further–today’s Question of the Day is:<\/p>\n What “green” practices have you adopted in recent years? <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n These practices don’t have to be elaborate or difficult. It’s easier to make change in small increments. What baby steps have you taken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s Question of the Day is: What “green” practices have you adopted in recent years? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,6217,6200,6215,6216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/Mmbtdoor.jpg\" "\\"Mmbtdoor\\"")