How Many Trees Are Dying From Tissues 🌲🌳 🌲🌳 🌲🌳

     We use tissues every day after eating meals, going to the toilets, wiping poured glasses and so on. As you all know, tissues are made of trees, and we do not think of them as a great deal in the environment for individual usage. However, unlike our thoughts, using lots of tissues can hurt the environment harshly.


Have you ever thought about how many trees are sacrificed to make one tissue. At least 17 trees will have to be cut down and 20,000 gallons of water is consumed to produce a ton of tissue paper. It may not seem so serious, but there is an example which shows the seriousness of wasting tissues. Actually, in Hong Kong, people daily used 668 tons of tissues in 2014, which means about 11,300 trees and 13 million gallons of water.


We cannot say that It is only someone’s or one person’s responsibility. Everyone should notice the side-effects of wasting tissues, and give some efforts to change the environment, which may not be clearly distinguished as serious problems around us. Therefore, there are some tips to prevent wasting tissues. Firstly, after washing the hands, you can use towels instead of paper tissues in the bathrooms. Many countries are actually trying not to whip hands after going to the bathroom. Also, washing hands and using towels are eco-friendlier. If you are outside, you can use your own handkerchief, which you can reuse everyday. Secondly, we can reduce our tissue paper usage by using washcloths instead of cleaning. Because we can recycle washcloths many times, there will be clearly different results in a positive way if we change our method to wash the clothes to use washcloths. You may imagine how many trees and water you can save.


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