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Over 90% of American households use paper towels, creating over 3,000 tons of waste each day. Switching to recycled roll paper towels can help cut down on all this trash. If every household in the US replaced one roll of non-recycled paper towels with a roll of 100% recycled paper towels, we would save 864,000 trees and 3.4 million cubic feet of landfill space. For every ton of 100% recycled paper that is bought, about 4000kWh of energy and 7,000 gallons of water are saved. It also avoids releasing 60 lbs of pollutants into the air.
Obviously, using cloth rags and napkins that you wash is the best bet. But for some, paper towels and napkins are necessities. Try recycled paper products - Seventh Generation and many other manufacturer's make them. They are usually only slightly more expensive - and sometimes even cheaper - than non-recycled kinds.
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