HELP SAVE BOREAL FOREST by calling on Costco to use recycled or forest-free materials in its toilet paper
In the time it takes you to brush your teeth tonight, #Canada 's #BorealForest will lose three football fields of #trees.
It's alarming, but the culprit is softer than you think: We're watching the boreal disappear before our eyes in part because #Costco uses boreal trees to make toilet paper.
Years ago, the tremendous boreal spanned 1.5 billion acres of forested lands -- larger than all but six countries in the world.
These forested lands hosted #wildlife large and small: On the ground, you could find Canadian #lynx, #SnowshoHare and even #WoodBison. In the treetops and skies above, nearly half of all North American #birds rely on the forest during #migration.
And if you look even higher -- up to our atmosphere -- you'll find another important benefit. The boreal's trees are a #CarbonSink, soaking up enough #carbon each year to offset the global warming #pollution of 24 million cars.
Now, back to #Costco. Shelves lined with #Kirkland signature toilet paper can't compare with the beauty and majesty of forested lands in the world's "northern lungs."
#Costco sells a billion rolls of toilet paper each year. It's the company's best-selling item. Stacked on top of each other, those rolls would soar to heights of 300 million feet -- the same as 240,000 Empire State Buildings.
But those rolls don't come from thin air. They're chopped from the #boreal and flushed away to infinity.
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