{"id":10551,"date":"2025-12-03T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:24:08","slug":"nrdc-issue-with-tissue-report-highlights-green-seal-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/nrdc-issue-with-tissue-report-highlights-green-seal-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"NRDC \u201cIssue with Tissue\u201d Report Highlights Green Seal Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since 2019, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has released its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/resources\/issue-tissue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Issue with Tissue<\/em><\/a> scorecard \u2014 an in-depth look at the state of the tissue industry paired with a consumer-facing scorecard of major toilet paper, paper towel, and facial tissue brands. The scorecard evaluates products against critical forest and climate sustainability criteria, helping consumers understand the environmental impact of everyday essentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in its seventh edition, this year\u2019s <em>Issue with Tissue<\/em> spotlights the urgent need for more responsible fiber sourcing and transparent sustainability practices in the paper sector \u2013 the same priorities Green Seal targeted in the newest version of our certification standard for sanitary paper products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NRDC scorecard recognizes Green Seal\u2019s standard for aligning with these priorities by requiring recycled content or sustainably sourced alternative fibers and promoting chlorine-free bleaching processes. \u201cThe standard helps strengthen sector-wide consistency around verifiable sustainability benchmarks and, like this scorecard, guides consumers toward more forest- and climate-friendly product choices,\u201d NRDC writes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s <em>Issue with Tissue<\/em> Seventh Edition report scored152 household toilet paper, paper towel, and facial tissue products. Of those, 36 received an \u201cA\u201d or \u201cA+\u201d and 36 earned a \u201cB\u201d or \u201cB+\u201d grade, largely due to their use of recycled or sustainably sourced bamboo fibers. Five manufacturers of the highest-scoring products helped to develop the latest version of Green Seal\u2019s standard as part of our Sanitary Paper Standard <a href=\"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/press-release\/green-seal-announces-members-of-sanitary-paper-product-working-group\/\">Working Group<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/standards\/gs-1-sanitary-paper-products\/\">Standard for Sanitary Paper Products<\/a>, updated in July, covers toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, and related products. It defines sustainability leadership across five core elements: safer chemicals, responsible fiber sourcing, low-impact manufacturing, sustainable packaging, and verified performance and claims. Each requirement is grounded in the latest science and informed by broad stakeholder feedback.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alignment of our standard and the NRDC\u2019s <em>Issue with Tissue<\/em> report helps strengthen an industry-wide benchmark that allows manufacturers, purchasers, and consumers to identify what truly makes tissue products more sustainable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumers looking for products that meet the sustainability criteria in the <em>Issue with Tissue<\/em> report and meet our standards can find them by checking for the Green Seal Certification Mark on product packaging or by browsing our <a href=\"https:\/\/certified.greenseal.org\/directory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">certified directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scorecard spotlights the urgent need for more responsible fiber sourcing and transparent sustainability practices in the paper sector \u2013 the same priorities Green Seal targeted in the newest version of our certification standard for sanitary paper products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":10554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,23],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends-in-sustainability","tag-sanitary-paper","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10560,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}