13 million paper towels are used annually in the United States by those who stop at a public restroom to wash and dry their hands. If every American citizen used just one disposable towel less per day, more than 250 million kg of paper would be saved annually. To make this happen, a man named Joe Smith has devised a very simple technique to implement just before moving on to dry your hands after washing them.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
13 million towels of paper are used annually in the United States by those who stop at a public bathroom to wash and dry their hands. If every American citizen used just one disposable towel less per day, they would be saved annually over 250 million kg of paper. To make this happen, a man named Joe Smith came up with one very simple technique to implement just before moving on to dry your hands after washing them.
Joe Smith presented the previous figures over a public speech which turned out to be extremely exhilarating for the listeners present, who got involved with his irony in the explanation concerning the method he devised to be able to dry his hands wasting no more than a paper towel. You know, paper towels or napkins in public restrooms are often thin and break easily. For this reason it is customary to use more than one in order to obtain effective drying.
One of the biggest problems with paper towels and napkins is that they cannot always be used for home compost or to the waste bin, especially if they have been soaked with oil used for frying and detergents or detergents formulated with polluting chemicals. Some of these problems can be solved by avoiding the use of towels or disposable napkins, preferring to them cloth or terry cloth towels, sponges and washable and reusable sheets. In case you are in a public bathroom it is highly likely that there is no alternative to paper towels (unless you always carry a small handbag towel with you). How then to waste as few as possible?
Joe Smith suggests the infallible technique of Shake and Fold! (Shake and Fold!). The technique is very simple and consists of shake hands after washing them twelve times (twelve are the hours of the day, the months of the year, the zodiac signs - the number was certainly not chosen randomly, as Joe himself confirmed). At this point you should find your hands still a little damp, but not so wet, in order to be able to grab and tear from any roll a single napkin.
At this point it must be folded in on itself two or three times, until obtaining a thickness with greater absorbency and more resistance. With a single napkin you should be able to dry your hands perfectly, without the need for a second. After watching the demonstration video that sees Joe Smith as the protagonist, you can only recall his "Shake and Fold!" every time you find yourself washing your hands!
