The Good Roll

The Good Roll

Toilet paper, tissues, and kitchen roll made of recycled paper and bamboo

What does this brand sell?

Toilet rolls, tissues and kitchen rolls

Netherlands

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Vegan/ vegetarian?
100% Vegan
Delivery
Delivery by bike in some countries, otherwise by truck
Transportation mode
Unknown
vegan icon
Vegan / vegetarian
100% Vegan
Delivery
Delivery by bike in some countries, otherwise by truck
Transportation Mode
Unknown

Does this brand offset carbon emissions and/or implement circular business practices?

The Good Roll ensures that throughout their entire supply chain, circularity is adhered. This includes recycling all their waste, such as paper, cans, glass, cardboard, wood and PET, food and residual waste. Furthermore, they offset their carbon emissions with JustDiggit.

About The Company

Get the ins and outs

The Good Roll was established in 2017 in the Netherlands. They produce 100% tree-friendly toilet paper, tissues, and kitchen rolls. 50% of their net profits go to the Good Roll Foundation which builds sanitary facilities in West Africa.

To make sustainable sanitary facilities available to everyone from the sales of toilet rolls.

They have partnered with JustDiggit, an organisation that focuses on landscape restoration.

  • The aim of the foundation is to build 300+ toilets in Ghana and through that improve the lives of 15.000 people by the end of 2023.
  • Continue to help schools and communities through their Good Roll Foundation.

Coolest Dutch Brands Awards 2022

Green Corporate Award at the EMY Awards Africa 2023

Product details

Find out more details about the products

Store locator

Various locations across Europe, check out their store locator

Delivery To* (Website)

Europe

Subscription

They offer flexible subscriptions to receive a 10% discount.

Store locator

Various locations across Europe, check out their store locator

Delivery To* (Website)

Europe

Packaging/packaging materials

The rolls are packaged in FSC-certified paper and 100% recycled paper boxes

Donations / partnerships

  • They donate 50% of their net profit to building toilets in places that currently lack basic access to safe and clean sanitation
  • Partnership with SafiSana to convert human waste into biogas and fertiliser to support and sustain the local community. They also provide filtered water and provide free sanitary products for girls
  • Partnership with Days for Girls (DfG) to advance menstrual equity, health, dignity and opportunity for all girls

Subscription

They offer flexible subscriptions to receive a 10% discount.

Materials

Recycled paper and bamboo

Fully sourced and manufactured in Europe?

No

Materials

Recycled paper and bamboo

Fully sourced and manufactured in Europe?

No

Packaging/packaging materials

The rolls are packaged in FSC-certified paper and 100% recycled paper boxes

Donations / partnerships

  • They donate 50% of their net profit to building toilets in places that currently lack basic access to safe and clean sanitation
  • Partnership with SafiSana to convert human waste into biogas and fertiliser to support and sustain the local community. They also provide filtered water and provide free sanitary products for girls
  • Partnership with Days for Girls (DfG) to advance menstrual equity, health, dignity and opportunity for all girls

in depth production details

Analyze their supply chain: from the sourcing of raw materials to the people who make the product

Materials for paper rolls are sourced in Europe.

Bamboo is sourced in China but soon to be moved to their factory in Ghana.

16 rolls 2 ply = EUR 18.74

The Good Roll delivers 90% of their products with Budbee, which has helped reduce significantly the CO2 emissions. They drive with 100% fossil-free fuel and for the CO2 emissions that they do make, they compensate 110%. Cargo bikes are also used to deliver within the city. Additionally, by partnering with JustDiggit, they promoted restoration programs to empower, educate and activate farmers in Africa to make drylands green again. The restoration of ecosystems causes CO2 reduction, return of vegetation, water replenishment and many other benefits.
They also use bamboo, which absorbs 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare per year.

By making bamboo rolls, the energy consumption is reduced compared to the paper production process.

Bamboo only uses one fifth of water compared to the process that wood requires to create the same amount of toilet paper. By using recycled paper, there is less water compared to the paper production process.

No information on this is provided by the brand.

No information on this is provided by the brand.

Free of chlorine, colour, or fragances

The Good Roll offers jobs to incapacitated people or those places at a distance from the labour market. Additionally, they ensure equality in gender, age, culture, and education.

The Good Roll also strives for their employees to be as sustainably as possible and have acquired Swapfiets bicycles for anyone in the company and stimulate the usage of public transport.

Lastly, they have a collaboration with De Sociaal Werkkoepel – Wrapping and Packaging of products, ensuring a safe environment.

Further reading

You can check out their annual report 2020-2021 and a summary of their impacts.

 

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