Ask Umbra: Is there really BPA in my recycled buttwipe?

Grist
By Ask UmbraMay 29, 2014, 1:41 pm28 pts
Q. I am on the committee for an association of property owners on a lake in Ontario and have offered to write an article about the merits of using recycled toilet paper in our septic systems. But I was disturbed to read online that recycled paper has BPA in it and shouldn’t be used on any part of our bodies,…

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