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Via NYT: Environmental groups such as NRDC and Greenpeace are making a call to action to Americans obsessed with soft toilet paper. We decided to poll our followers on twitter (@takepart) to see what our eco-friendly community prefers, and shockingly just 11 percent of you voted for recycled TP. (Note: This does not reflect the single vote for leaves.) With just under 10 percent of precincts reporting, we’re calling it for premium.

Not only does premium TP require the pulp from live trees, but some of those trees are cut from old-growth forests. So why are we so resistant to make the switch? I mean, even the celebs used recycled toilet paper at the Oscars this year. And The Good Human claims that if every household switched one regular roll to a recycled roll we’d save 470,000 trees and 169 million gallons of water.

You can takepart by consulting Greenpeace’s handy pocket-sized guide before you buy your next 24-pack.