By: Cheryl Blackburn

Cheryl Blackburn — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:04:17 +0000

We use Green Home’s unbleached 2-ply in our small luxury 4 star lodge in the Drakensberg. Our guests LOVE the product & so do our septic tanks, but sadly the 2-ply range has just been discontinued….. I’m sure if we get enough support in the hospitality industry we could get them to run this again?

By: Don Boroughs

Don Boroughs — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:45:09 +0000

Muriel,
This is a good question. Nampak deinks the paper first using a non-chemical process, in which bubbles are used to remove ink from the paper. It then brightens the pulp using Direct Borol Injection or DBI. I have struggled to get good information about the environmental impact about this process. I do know that one line of recycled tissue products bleached with DBI has received a five-star environmental rating from the government of New Zealand, and I know that Borol does not contain chlorine, which is good. It does contain sodium borohydride and sodium hydroxide. (lye or caustic soda) I have made some queries about Borol, and if I learn more I will post it here. In the meantime, I continue to use Twinsaver. I have seen some brown, unbleached toilet paper advertised as environmentally friendly, but I would rather compromise with bleached recycled tissue rather than unbleached virgin. All other things being equal, though, the greyer the recycled tissue, the better, since it has been bleached less.

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