As businesses and organisations become more and more environmentally aware and focused on ‘green’ issues, they are taking steps towards re-evaluating items that are frequently consumed in the workplace, such as hand towels and toilet paper. More and more businesses are moving towards sustainable consumables made from materials like bamboo, and away from paper products.
Although paper does have the advantage of being biodegradable, and is a natural substance, the manufacturing process of paper has significant drawbacks, such as the use of chemicals that may harm the environment. Recyclable paper is of course preferable to non-recycled paper, yet hard paper towels can still take a significant amount of time to undergo decomposition.
A lot of paper fibres can undergo the recycling process from four to eight times. After being recycled on so many occasions, the paper fibres eventually wear down to such a degree that they can no longer successfully coalesce into paper. At the moment it's estimated that the current use of recycled paper amounts to approximately one third of all paper products being circulated. It is therefore clear that much more can be done to increase this percentage to as close to 100 percent as possible.
Recycled paper has the advantage of avoiding as much damage to the environment through the cutting down of old growth forests, not to mention the opportunity costs of having to initiate new tree plantations and wait for them to come to maturity. There are also costs involved in the manufacturing and transportation costs every time new paper is created, as well as an increase in the fossil fuels and other harmful materials release into the atmosphere.
One alternative to using recycled paper in your business is the use of bamboo fibres in sustainable consumables for materials such as hand towels and toilet paper. Bamboo fibres are used in consumables like toilet paper and hand towels using an extraction process from the pulp of the bamboo. There's a chemical process involved whereby the unrefined pulp of the bamboo is taken and transformed through an alkalization process, followed by rounds of bleaching. The final result of the consumable created from bamboo fibre material is a thin, white or coloured texture, almost indistinguishable from our traditional toilet paper and hand towels. Click here to find more about industrial cleaning services.
The main advantage in using bamboo fibres in place of recycled paper is that bamboo consumables are biodegradable. This provides a reduction in the impact on the environment and a reduction in pollution.
One major disadvantage of using bamboo fibre products in lieu of recycled paper is the anticipated problem of meeting the widespread demand from organisations and businesses. Bamboo fibre products may help to reduce the potential loss of old growth forests, though again there are problems here in that, as certain environmental groups have pointed out, bamboo harvests can lead to the destruction of bamboo plant bases, which, among other things, provide an important food source for Chinese Giant Pandas, an endangered species.
Although paper does have the advantage of being biodegradable, and is a natural substance, the manufacturing process of paper has significant drawbacks, such as the use of chemicals that may harm the environment. Recyclable paper is of course preferable to non-recycled paper, yet hard paper towels can still take a significant amount of time to undergo decomposition.
A lot of paper fibres can undergo the recycling process from four to eight times. After being recycled on so many occasions, the paper fibres eventually wear down to such a degree that they can no longer successfully coalesce into paper. At the moment it's estimated that the current use of recycled paper amounts to approximately one third of all paper products being circulated. It is therefore clear that much more can be done to increase this percentage to as close to 100 percent as possible.
Recycled paper has the advantage of avoiding as much damage to the environment through the cutting down of old growth forests, not to mention the opportunity costs of having to initiate new tree plantations and wait for them to come to maturity. There are also costs involved in the manufacturing and transportation costs every time new paper is created, as well as an increase in the fossil fuels and other harmful materials release into the atmosphere.
One alternative to using recycled paper in your business is the use of bamboo fibres in sustainable consumables for materials such as hand towels and toilet paper. Bamboo fibres are used in consumables like toilet paper and hand towels using an extraction process from the pulp of the bamboo. There's a chemical process involved whereby the unrefined pulp of the bamboo is taken and transformed through an alkalization process, followed by rounds of bleaching. The final result of the consumable created from bamboo fibre material is a thin, white or coloured texture, almost indistinguishable from our traditional toilet paper and hand towels. Click here to find more about industrial cleaning services.
The main advantage in using bamboo fibres in place of recycled paper is that bamboo consumables are biodegradable. This provides a reduction in the impact on the environment and a reduction in pollution.
One major disadvantage of using bamboo fibre products in lieu of recycled paper is the anticipated problem of meeting the widespread demand from organisations and businesses. Bamboo fibre products may help to reduce the potential loss of old growth forests, though again there are problems here in that, as certain environmental groups have pointed out, bamboo harvests can lead to the destruction of bamboo plant bases, which, among other things, provide an important food source for Chinese Giant Pandas, an endangered species.