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[quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]
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