Bounty vs Viva Paper towels

[Anonymous]

I used to love Viva when it was just DH and me, but once kids came and we started going through more paper towels I switched to Bounty.

[Anonymous]

I love costco brand. DH goes through paper towels like trees killed his family LOL. Good to have plentiful and cheap variety on hand. Have no issues with their thickness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rag FTW.

gross

[Anonymous]

Viva

[Anonymous]

I just don’t want the “tear a sheet” option. In the end you pay more for less. It’s moron math and its marketing insults all our intelligence. Brawny full size or reusable rag.

[Anonymous]

I like Viva, DH is committed to Bounty. We are united in our hatred of Brawny.

[Anonymous]

I'm a Viva fan and always will be. They may not be the best but in terms of paper towels, they are what I like to use Although I feel like I liked them more years ago than current version.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d love to see a real study on the environmental impact of paper vs. purpose made reusable towels. Cotton is incredibly resource intensive to grow & then into fabric. Then you have to wash them, using gallons of water and pumping waste into the treatment system. “Pulp wood” farms actually sequester carbon. I can see it if you’re reusing rags from cloth that would otherwise be landfilled, but if you’re going out and buying bespoke washable towels I suspect that this is a performant act.

I actually just did a quick search and couldn’t find anything that had any actual data, other than this Sierra Club calculation of water use, which says basically “it depends” and “it’s probably a wash.” If you’re using rags for the same way you use paper towels (reusing unwashed rags is a hygiene issue), you’re going to use a ton of water.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/2014/03/hey-mr-green-it-more-ecofriendly-use-rags-or-paper-towels

I was just wondering the same thing. I know this is true of cotton shopping bags. The British government did a study and number of times you have to reuse cotton bags to counter the environmental impacts of production (vs. disposable plastic) is astronomical, especially if you take into account that most plastic shopping bags are reused for bin liners, etc. In this case, where you're having to wash the rags after every use, I can't imagine the environmental impact is a net positive. I personally use rags for some household cleaning tasks where I don't want the lint from paper towels, but I don't think I'm saving the planet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love costco brand. DH goes through paper towels like trees killed his family LOL. Good to have plentiful and cheap variety on hand. Have no issues with their thickness.

Please choose your words more carefully. Trees kill people every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1 for Viva here - like the select a size too.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d love to see a real study on the environmental impact of paper vs. purpose made reusable towels. Cotton is incredibly resource intensive to grow & then into fabric. Then you have to wash them, using gallons of water and pumping waste into the treatment system. “Pulp wood” farms actually sequester carbon. I can see it if you’re reusing rags from cloth that would otherwise be landfilled, but if you’re going out and buying bespoke washable towels I suspect that this is a performant act.

I actually just did a quick search and couldn’t find anything that had any actual data, other than this Sierra Club calculation of water use, which says basically “it depends” and “it’s probably a wash.” If you’re using rags for the same way you use paper towels (reusing unwashed rags is a hygiene issue), you’re going to use a ton of water.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/2014/03/hey-mr-green-it-more-ecofriendly-use-rags-or-paper-towels

I was just wondering the same thing. I know this is true of cotton shopping bags. The British government did a study and number of times you have to reuse cotton bags to counter the environmental impacts of production (vs. disposable plastic) is astronomical, especially if you take into account that most plastic shopping bags are reused for bin liners, etc. In this case, where you're having to wash the rags after every use, I can't imagine the environmental impact is a net positive. I personally use rags for some household cleaning tasks where I don't want the lint from paper towels, but I don't think I'm saving the planet.

Lol, thanks for the laugh. I don’t think “bespoke” means what you think it means. And I take it you don’t have dish towels or bath towels? Because those are “bespoke” cotton rags as well. Maybe Costco will make giant bath sheet size paper towel rolls for you to use, surely that’s better for the environment than washing towels.

[Anonymous]

I haven't used Viva in years because I used to find them very linty.