The toilet paper crisis of 2020 will probably be remembered as a strange and humorous aside to the COVID-19 pandemic. "In Canada, we're not harvesting trees to make toilet paper, we're harvesting trees in a planned and sustainable way to produce lumber. "The wood fibre that ends up going to toilet paper is about one per cent of our overall wood fibre basket." A new, contested report from the Natural Resources Defence Council in the U.S. says Canadian toilet paper production is devastating Canadian boreal forests and fuelling climate change. According to Nighbor, only 0.5 per cent of the harvestable Canadian forest is cut every year, with the vast majority used for lumber production.

Source: CBC News June 25, 2020 01:07 UTC