1000 Flowers for the Planet - #262 Use Rags
Paper towel is made from paper – there’s actually a clue in
the name, isn’t there? Paper comes from trees, and whilst trees are sustainable
(so long as we manage these resources wisely), it seems crazy to me to create a
product that is single use and then gets thrown in the bin (call that
landfill). Try using rags instead. You don’t even have to buy them. Plenty of
us have old t-shirts or other clothing that has been worn to death and is quite
ready to become a rag. Old tea towels that don’t dry well enough or now have
holes in them make excellent rags, as do torn and worn out sheets and other
linen items. A lot of cloth items around the house can eventually be used as
rags for cleaning up spills, wiping away dust and dirt, drying hands
(particularly in the garage or home workshop), general cleaning or any other
use you may find around the house.
Our ancestors never used them and they managed to have clean
households. Use rags instead, wash them (not necessarily with your lingerie) and
keep reusing them. You will be saving some trees, putting less into landfill
and, more importantly, avoid putting the chemical substances, such as bleach
which can be used to make the paper towels white, into the ground and
subsequently the water systems.
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