Is recycled content tissue made from used toilet paper thats been recycled?
Are you kidding?!? Think that one through for a minute. Where does used toilet paper go? Right . . . down the sewer to sewage plants, where it turns into sewage sludge. Some sewage sludge may be composted for fertilizer and soil amendments. But it does not get made into paper or tissue. It cannot be used to make paper or tissue. NONE of it is turned back into paper or tissue. Recycled content tissue products are made from recovered office papers. Q: Okay, but couldn’t those have something pretty nasty in them that could end up in the tissue I use to wipe my baby’s nose? A: The deinking process that turns recovered office paper into recycled fibers for use in new papers is a heavy-duty washing, scrubbing and screening process. Those office papers are dumped into huge vats, similar to several-stories-tall washing machines, where surfactants (specialized detergents) wash and scrub the papers apart. Inks are floated to the top of the vat, where they are skimmed off. Heavier non-fiber mater
