You're out shopping and you go to the bathroom. You wash your hands and have the option between those annoying hand dryers that don't actually dry your hands and paper towels that do the trick easily and quickly. Like most people you probably pick the quick and easy option. But then how many towels do you take? two? three? four? What if you just take one?
I watched this TED talk by Joe Smith when I was in high school and I will still think about it when I dry my hands. He gives instructions on how to effectively dry you hands with only one paper towel. His method is this: shake and fold. Shake your hands twelve times (why twelve? watch and find out. He's hilarious. I promise), fold the towel in half, and dry your hands. Just think about how much paper Americans could save if everyone reduced their paper towel usage by one towel every day for a year. The answer is 571,230,000 pounds of paper towels.
Usually at work I do the shake and fold thing and only use one towel, but for this month I am cutting that out too. I've been doing the whole twelve shake dance then using the excess water to pat down my hair frizz. I keep telling myself I will bring in an actual hand towel to keep in the bathroom, but I'm too scared someone will make a strange comment.
I watched this TED talk by Joe Smith when I was in high school and I will still think about it when I dry my hands. He gives instructions on how to effectively dry you hands with only one paper towel. His method is this: shake and fold. Shake your hands twelve times (why twelve? watch and find out. He's hilarious. I promise), fold the towel in half, and dry your hands. Just think about how much paper Americans could save if everyone reduced their paper towel usage by one towel every day for a year. The answer is 571,230,000 pounds of paper towels.
Usually at work I do the shake and fold thing and only use one towel, but for this month I am cutting that out too. I've been doing the whole twelve shake dance then using the excess water to pat down my hair frizz. I keep telling myself I will bring in an actual hand towel to keep in the bathroom, but I'm too scared someone will make a strange comment.