If you’re downtown over the next few days, and you want to make a little difference, you might want to drop into the London Drugs branch at Granville and Georgia and ask for the recycled toilet paper. Dawn Buie did, and describes what happened on ChangeEverything.ca:
3 months ago I asked the London Drugs on Granville Street to stock recycled toilet paper. They never did. Last week I spoke to the manager and made the same request. At first he responded that recycled toilet paper didn’t exist. I told him I was able to buy it from their Hastings Street store.
He then changed his tune, and said because they had such a small store there wasn’t room to stock recycled toilet paper, and no one would buy it. I said- oh so you did stock it before?
He said yes they had done tests but no one bought it.
I said- times are changing. Perhaps you should try stocking it again.
So he took my phone number and agreed to bring in some packages. i just got the call that they have arrived.
I’m going to go buy as package from them tomorrow and I think it would be great if anyone who has the chance go there and make the same request.
Ideally it would be the only kind they should stock in a small store.
If you do end up doing it, and bless your heart if you did, then be sure to drop by Dawn’s thread and let her know.
I tried to get Zellers to stock recycled toilet paper over a year and a half ago. I filled in one of their customer feedback cards and am still waiting to hear back.
Here’s my story of stalking recycled tissue at Zellers.
Hi all:
Green is now the way to go…there should not be the problem of before to get them to have some in stock. Why am I interested? We now hear of billions to be spent on sewage treatment plants. However sewage leaves a plant, we should not be dumping into our Oceans septic tank! Barry Penner needs to know that every effort must be made to recycle the paper and make hydrogen or methane gas from the solids to help pay for these mega plants to be built in Victoria, Richmond and West Van. If done right, why do we have to dump anything in our Oceans???? It has been just convenient, but we are beyond this as an option now. If Algae can be made to grow, the Algae will eat CO2 which we must have and soon. We are getting into the relm of too many people….we cannot just dump anymore!!
Barry Davis, atms/cl,
http://www.barrydavis.net