Yikes! There’s a New Product in Town
According to the Kleenex website “People in the U.S. dry their hands on cloth bathroom towels approximately 200 billion times a year.”
What were they thinking?
So what is their solution? A brand new product on the market called Kleenex Hand Towels. The result. 200 billion more pieces of paper in our landfills, and an untold number of trees cut down to produce those hand towels. While their website goes into detail about their commitment to sustainably, they also state that “Because of the superior softness consumers expect from KLEENEX® Brand, KLEENEX® Brand Hand Towels are made with 100 percent virgin fiber.” And if that’s not enough, Kleenex recommends that they be taken to a recycling center for disposal. Not anywhere on their website could I find the word “biodegradable.
Kleenex advocates that just as the cloth handkerchief was replaced by paper, so should towels. Germ-o-phobics rejoice. Your prayers have been answered, one more way to keep those pesky germs out of your home.
While everyone agrees that when there is illness in the family, there could be a potential for the spread of germs on towels, but teaching children from an early age, the proper way to wash their hands (and adults too) and using a good old fashioned washing machine is a far more environmentally friendly way to keep healthy than using disposable towel every time you wash your hands.
A more environmentally sound way to go about this issue is to switch to non-toxic, earth friendly cleaning products. For a full line of these products visit the Best Going Green Products Store
PS. You have got to listen to their song that goes along with these hand towels.
The Kleenex Hand Towels Drying Song
July 25, 2010
Tags: earth friendly, environmentally friendly, hand washing, kleenex hand towels, non toxic Posted in: Going Green, going green products
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