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Are your tissues wiping away the last remaining forests?

Tissues: not something many of us spend a great deal of time thinking about. As long as they does the job, what more do you need? But when you begin to consider where that paper has come from and the impact it has on forest areas, it starts to become a lot more interesting. That's why we've produced a new tissue product guide - search the guide to discover which brands of toilet roll, kitchen towel, and tissues are kind to forests as well as your nose.

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Tissue product guide: how the products were rated

Each item in our tissue product guide has been rated according to information supplied by the retailers and manufacturers themselves.

Those containing a high percentage of recycled material or virgin fibre certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) appear in the top two green categories. Those with lower recycled and FSC content get an amber rating while products that struggled to prove their environmental credentials or whose manufacturers refused to give us any information at given a red rating. Some of the terms are a bit technical so there's a glossary below.