new documentary, “Charmin wipes out a forest,” looks at how toilet paper and paper towels are made by clear-cutting Canada’s boreal forests.The film is free to view (one-minute trailer here, 26-minute film here), and is touring 23 cities, where it is being screened from a mobile video truck.  Filmed on location in Canada and directed by award-winning filmmaker Steve Mims, the documentary features scientists, experts, and descendants of paper product manufacturer Procter & Gamble’s founders who petitioned the company to stop using virgin fibre from Canada’s boreal forest. In addition to Youtube, the film is posted, along with photographs, links to social media posts, published studies, and other documentation and resources, on Charminkillsforests.org.   The Charmin Kills Forests campaign is organized by a small, self-funded team of environmental advocates. It focuses on Charmin as one consumer product among others using 100% virgin pulp from one of Earth’s few remaining wild forests.As the film reveals, Canada’s boreal forests are less and less wild, and increasingly fragmented and degraded. Even old growth stands that have stood for a century or more continue to be clear-cut for wood pulp for toilet paper and other disposable paper products, destroying habitats of caribou and migratory birds.Once logged, remnant wood (“slash”) is burned and the land gets plowed and sprayed with glyphosate (RoundUp), wiping out formerly diverse ecosystems, which are replaced by monoculture plantations with trees planted in tight rows, aggravating wildfires.P&G claims its products “absolutely prohibit deforestation” and are sustainably sourced. The company is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging greenwashing, claiming the company’s environmental claims are misleading and mask unsustainable logging practices in the Canadian boreal forest. (ICE TORONTO)

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