Plastic Free Challenge - Day 30

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Today's challenge is to "use cloth towels instead of paper". One cloth paper towel = 7,300 paper towels, and not to mention all the single-use plastic these items are wrapped in (sometimes double wrapped). 13 billion pounds of paper towels are used in the USA alone each year (couldn't find a comparable Canadian Stat). Paper towels aren’t recyclable in the traditional sense. Paper towels are often made from recycled paper pulp – a non-recyclable product. Then, they are often dirty or wet when we are done with them, which degrades them further and makes them non-recyclable. Imagine if we collectively worked together to reduce our use of paper towels. The amount of non-recyclable paper trash that ends up in our landfills, environment and ocean could be reduced by the billions.


The Home, Made Happy unpaper towels and tough scrubbers

Swedish Dishcloth from Moonsnail Soapworks

If you must use paper towel, check out How to use one paper towel  by Joe Smith TEDxConcordiaUPortland.

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