Last Roll; Greening Our Home
Originally uploaded by Madeline & Ryosuke
This was the last roll! No more paper towels for us. My sister inspired me to conserve by not using paper towels. She has a stack of soft wash cloths that she uses throughout the week and washes on the weekend.
On the topic of conserving our paper products. A Belle once told me about someone she roomed with who only used one square of toilet paper per visit to the w.c. I'm not there yet but we are using recycled tp now.
3 comments:
ha! not there with the paper towels yet (yes, i do feel like it's a guilty indulgence!), but i am down to 2-3 squares! (only when yellow, and we try to let it mellow for a few uses too)
we haven't given up completely on paper towels but only use a roll every 3 months or so. mostly we do the rag/dish towel thing, but there are just some jobs (like when roxie was potty training!!!) for which a paper towel is hard to replace! during the drought (which durham only officially got out of a few weeks ago, now we're just "abnormally dry"), even very earth-friendly folks switched to paper products instead of dishes, disposable diapers instead of cloth, etc. to conserve water. while our water situation was and is serious, i thought that was a very bad tradeoff, and there were better ways to save water (e.g., save all the towels, as M Belle said, for a once a week wash or whenever you have a full load) than producing extra waste.
about the TP, i must have been talking about my hungarian roommate in france, who, not having the luxury of choosing to go green, was forced to conserve. we are so privileged to have the choice, and as the drought taught us, that choice is not infinite!
p.s. that is a very cool pic!
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