Day 305: Stopped Buying Paper Towels
Once the roll of paper towels were done, I didn’t buy anymore and will be using old t-shirts.
According to the National Resources Defense Council, “If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 544,000 trees.”
Imagine how much more it would be if we didn’t use paper towels at all.
WearableCollections, an NYC clothing and textile recycling company, sites a study that says, “386 million pounds of textiles enter the NYC waste stream annually, representing close to 6% of total waste.”
What was your simple green act for the day?