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Americans Are Weirdly Obsessed with Paper Towels
- jprd 3y agoMy climate sin I cannot let go of. Decades from now, if I live that long, I will staunchly defend my use of the glory that is Bounty Select-a-Size™ paper towels, despite the hellscape my children live in.
- rcme 3y agoThe CO2 emission of one flight from NY to Chicago is equivalent to like 100 years of using a roll of paper towels every 3 days.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoSeveral years ago, inspired by Laudato Si', I decided to switch over to using cloth dish towels in the kitchen, as well as dinner napkins. And then I could just toss them in the laundry and rotate stock. This was working pretty well. But I still found that I wanted paper towels. So I do keep a few rolls in stock, but they go very, very slowly now. The only times I use paper towels are if I have some grody mess that'll ruin the towels and/or needs to be immediately thrown into the garbage, and so paper towels are a logical substrate for that. I think it's been at least 5 months since I opened a new roll.