Every piece of toilet paper is the life of a tree! Recycled pulp toilet paper is cheap and environmentally friendly, and only 5% is used in Taiwan.

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Recently, it was reported that the price of toilet paper will rise in March, causing people to rush to buy it, and all major stores have been swept out of toilet paper. This increase is mainly due to the increase in the cost of raw pulp, packaging materials, freight, and so on. However, the increase in recycled toilet paper is not so high because of the use of recycled paper. At the same time, it is also more environmentally friendly and friendly to the earth.

Only 5% of Taiwan uses recycled paper to make toilet paper.

The Industry Bureau said that even if the imported pulp is not from the tropical rain forest, the imported carbon footprint is relatively high. Foreign countries have already begun to use a large number of recycled paper. 65% of Japanese toilet paper uses recycled paper, and more than 50% in Europe and the United States, but only 5% in Taiwan at present.

Toilet paper is like cheap water and electricity in Taiwan. Toilet paper is cheap and free, whether it's a gift of gas or a tissue for roadside advertising tools. You don't see that every piece of toilet paper is the life of a tree. The value of the tree's life has not been seen. " Huang Shu-te, former director of the Housewives' Union Cooperative and now chairman of the Green electricity Co-operative, points out that when a piece of toilet paper goes from the forest to the hands of consumers, people have no feeling about the connection in the middle. "and toilet paper is a large amount of products for people's livelihood. Therefore, the government does not dare to impose a very heavy environmental tax, but toilet paper is 100% native pulp, which can only be used at one time and can no longer be recycled."

Recycled toilet paper is sterilized with office paper at high temperature, so there is no doubt about its safety.

Huang Shu-teh says that recycled toilet paper is mainly from office paper, printing industry trimming, recycling cartons, cartons, and so on. "Household recycling accounts for less, and if it is paper for people's livelihood, such as toilet paper, it will definitely be thrown directly into the dustbin. It will not be recycled as recycled toilet paper."

Although recycled toilet paper is more environmentally friendly and friendly to the earth, many people have doubts about the hygiene and safety of recycled toilet paper. Huang Shude said that people will misunderstand that the original pulp is pure white and looks more advanced and clean. but the general toilet paper can be so white, because the addition of bleach, resulting in water pollution, "everyone does not want to see the price of pure white and clean." "and toilet paper is made by sterilizing the pulp with high-temperature steam above a few hundred degrees," but people feel dirty when they hear about recycling, and the environment should encourage people not to buy new things. now toilet paper is so cheap that some people use it as a rag. "

For the general public that recycled toilet paper is not so white, worried about not sterilization, recycled toilet paper dandelion brand marketing manager Chen further explained, "this part can rest assured, because the production process is the use of 400 degrees high temperature sterilization, there will be no hygiene problems," and in the whiteness part, because recycled toilet paper uses office recycled paper, there will be some ink, although after deinking, the color will not be so white. However, this does not affect the use of the problem.

Recycled pulp is cheaper than original pulp, and the price difference is 20%.

Manager Chen further pointed out that compared with its own brand of general toilet paper spring breeze and recycled toilet paper dandelion, the price of recycled toilet paper is relatively cheap, which can be as low as 20%, "because the recycled paper is mainly recycled from the office. This kind of recycled pulp is cheaper than the original pulp," and the cost of the original pulp has increased by more than 30%. Although the recycled pulp has increased slightly, it is not so high.

The Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs pointed out that almost all domestic pulp sources are imported from abroad, so the price is affected by fluctuations in international pulp prices, but toilet paper, including toilet paper, is disposable products, and the use of imported pulp is a bit wasteful. It is the most environmentally friendly to use local materials.

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