Toilet paper hasn't got an expiry date, unlike fruit or vegetables, so you can easily buy it in bigger amounts and store it at home. So, why buy one pack at a time at the market instead of buying an entire box, with a better price and directly from the producer? When we buy something at the market, the goods go through different stages that have a cost, both in price and in pollution. Let's imagine lorries that go from the producer to the warehouse, to the department store and finally to the markets: every step has a cost in petrol, tyres, brakes, with a respective cost of pollution and waste of energy. Every product bought from the producer will then bring an important advantage, but it's not always easy to put in practise this simplification for organizational reasons or because there are limitations from large retailers or from some producers. Fortunately it is not the case of tissue toilet, and we can find on the Lucart website, under the brand Grazie with the slogan “The paper that doesn't cut trees”.
Materials
A toilet paper roll is obviously made from paper, that comes from trees: you can find whoever deforests entire forests to produce it and who uses more ethically correct systems, for example cultivating their own trees and re-implanting them when cut, so the quality of the living plants is always constant. Why then use high quality paper instead of recycled? Obviously recycling brings huge advantages to the environment, both in terms of refuse reduction and energy waste and doesn't bring any side effects. Thanks to modern producing systems today it is hard for the consumer to distinguish which is recycled or not, so when possible there shouldn't be any excuses not to buy recycled products, especially in the case of toilet paper which is made for being used and then thrown away.
Packaging
We are all aware of the new law in 2011 banning the sale of plastic bags: so why should we buy products that have plastic packaging, if we can choose others? Packaging for this ecological toilet paper roll isn't made of plastic but with Mater-Bi, a biodegradable material made of starch, which you can throw in the organic bin.
Super maxi rolls
You can find several brands of toilet paper, where large paperboard rolls reduce the length of the paper. Obviously this strategy, like others are made for the purpose of selling more, but this means a large waste of resources and more environmental pollution. Super maxi rolls last three times more than the traditional mini rolls and in a 8 roll packet you'll have the equivalent of 24.
Other products
It is possible to buy kitchen paper, all-purpose paper rolls, tissues and table napkins within the same company, everything is produced with the same characteristics: recycled paper with Mater-Bi packaging. If you want to buy these products go online http://shop.grazie.it, where with a simple registration you can receive the products directly at home. Payment is available through bank transfer or with the convenient and immediate credit card.
