John,

You can buy almost anything at Walmart, but a healthy forest ecosystem is something you can't find on any store's shelves. If we destroy our remaining pristine forests with logging, we won't get them back within our lifetimes.

That's why it's so ridiculous that the boreal forest is getting chopped down at an unsustainable rate -- in part to make tissues and toilet paper.

The North American boreal forest is the largest remaining intact forest on Earth, but it won't stay that way for long if logging keeps destroying more than a football field's worth of trees every minute.1

To protect trees and abundant wildlife of the boreal forest, Walmart should commit to sell forest-free tissue products.

Tell Walmart to do its part to help save the boreal by stocking forest-free tissue products.

The boreal's abundant trees are the lungs of the planet. The forest provides critical habitat for wildlife and sucks up tons of carbon pollution to help protect our climate.

Logging the boreal to create raw material for products including toilet paper is shattering the tremendous forest into wounded, isolated pockets.2 If substantial logging continues, we'll lose this forest, the animals that call it home, and its climate-protecting power.

We don't need to chop down pristine forests to make tissue products. More sustainable materials like recycled paper and bamboo are great, green alternatives.

Walmart can help protect our planet's irreplaceable forests by committing to not sell toilet paper and other tissue products made from the boreal forest.

Urge Walmart to commit to more sustainable tissue today.

Walmart has a long way to go on sustainability -- it earned an "F" grade on its progress toward reducing its impact on forests.3

Walmart advertises itself as being on its way to becoming a "regenerative company" that restores, renews and replenishes the environment.4 That vision just doesn't fit alongside tissue products made out of irreplaceable boreal trees.

We need to raise our voices together to show Walmart that its customers want products that won’t put our planet at risk.

Send your message today.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Ellen Montgomery, "Which toilet paper companies are taking steps to be more sustainable?" Environment America Research & Policy Center, April 22, 2024.
2. Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai, "Canada's Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change," The New York Times, January 4, 2024.
3. Ellen Montgomery, "Which toilet paper companies are taking steps to be more sustainable?," Environment America Research & Policy Center, April 22, 2024.
4. "Sustainability," Walmart, last accessed May 9, 2024.