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As a frugal person who cares about the environment, I someday dream of a day when I will be less reliant on paper towels and paper napkins and will use cloth instead.
But until my three little boys get out of that sticky stage, I just can’t give up the convenience of paper.
So I try to look for alternatives and one that I’ve found is Marcal Small Steps.
Marcal Small Steps products makes toilet paper, napkins, and paper towels from 100% premium recycled paper without chlorine bleaches, fragrances or dyes.
According to the company, if every household in the U.S. replaced one package of traditional toilet paper with Marcal Small Steps, together we could help save nearly one million trees. And, in your own home, a family of four could save two trees a year (17 trees over 10 years) just by switching to paper products made from 100% recycled materials.
I recently got a chance to try some of the Marcal Small Steps products. While the facial tissue was too rough for my tender nose, the paper towels, bath tissue, and paper napkins were just as good as their less eco-friendly competitors.
I haven’t been able to find Marcal Small Steps in my rural area, but Marcal does claim to sell for less than traditional paper goods. I frequently see some high value coupons online and in the Sunday papers, which would help make this an affordable small step toward helping the environment.
To celebrate Earth Month, Marcal Small Steps has created a calendar of the many ways you can help the environment with your own “small steps.” Just stop by the Marcal Small Steps Facebook page and download the Marcalendar with some great ideas for getting a little more green this month and beyond.
And now, in honor of Earth Month, I’m hosting a giveaway.
Enter to win a month’s supply of Marcal Small Steps products (a $25 value!). Your prize pack will include an assortment of toilet paper, facial tissue, paper towel and napkins.
To enter this giveaway, please fill out the form below before 8 p.m. (CT) on Wednesday, April 28. If you are having trouble seeing the form, please click here.
You must be a resident of the US age 18 years or older. Please only one entry per household. Duplicate entries will be deleted. The names and e-mail addresses I gather will only be used to notify the winner on how to claim their prize.
I will randomly draw one winner and notify that person by e-mail once the contest is over. I will also announce the winner here. The winner will have 48 hours to claim the prize, or I will draw a new winner.
While you’re welcome to comment on this post, please note that comments are not considered a valid entry. You must fill out the form to enter!
Disclosure: Marcal Small Steps sent me a variety of products to try and also provided the prize for this giveaway. Please know that the opinions expressed in this post are entirely my own and were not edited by Marcal Small Steps or their affiliates.
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Marcal is the biggest air and water polluter in the state of New Jersey. They have been fined almost a billion dollars by the EPA, and do much more harm than good. They filed Chapter 11 to avoid paying for the clean up, and also used it as an opportunity to break their union contract. Nice guys, huh? Then when they emerged from bankruptcy, they painted themselves green. For them to claim to be a green, eco-friendly company is a joke, as well as a lie.
what a great give away…Especially as this is earth day week…though should be earth day every day…imo. Anyway…I have just become familiar with Marcal product…where have I been?… :) Interesting enough I just purchased their tp for the first time this past Saturday.
LOL…to post #1…why anonymous IF your claims are true…some bloggers give me a chuckle hmmmmmm
All of us at Marcal welcome valid criticism and open discussion on blogs (and everywhere), but we want you to know that this anonymous poster also known as “Jackie” "Sally" "Hank" "Henry" "Nick" and "Jenny" (clearly the same cut and paste response based on each posts similarity to past unfair critiques) leaves comments like the one here anytime he or she sees something written about us…and leaves them anonymously or from a variety of different names, so there is no way we can get in touch and set the facts straight. The phrases used are always very similar, the kind of pattern that almost shouts, ”spam campaign.” This kind of nameless attack isn’t in the open spirit of blogs, and we think it’s a disservice to readers and to our hard-earned reputation. The simple fact is that we make our products in a manufacturing system designed to minimize our environmental impact. We invite the person making these attacks to come pay us a visit; we have noting to hide! We think our actions speak for themselves; otherwise, why would a group like the NRDC cite our factory in a discussion of companies leading the way environmentally in the New York metro area? (http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/egoldstein/green_apples_and_bad_apples…). Marcal didn’t recently “paint itself green.” We’ve been using recycled paper since 1950, long before green was in. As for the lawsuit, it was settled with no admission of wrong doing, enabling the company to emerge from bankruptcy to protect and grow jobs under a new owner and management team that understands that, if you are going to market yourself as green, you better do things right. Are we perfect? Of course not, but we are always striving to be better. We invite anyone with questions about our practices to contact us at ecofacts@marcal.com
Thank you for the give away and all that you do for all of us out here.It's like my Daddy say's,there's always one crap starter in every bunch and we just have to ignore them.Your site was one of the first I discovered when we adopted a frugal life style.Mary1day
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