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.