© Tracy Hunter

Even if you’ve given up paper towels and paper napkins you may be unwilling to part with toilet paper and tissues (at least when you have a bad cold). I don’t blame you! I am not in a big rush for reusable toilet paper myself. The toilet paper industry has one of the greatest industrial pressures on forests. A lot of the toilet paper we use is not made of recycled fibres but from felled trees — often from North America’s virgin forests, which are as rare as they are rich in wildlife.