Usually my blogging sticks to recent photographs and general thoughts, but when I see new products popping up that completely boggle my mind, I feel like I need to say something.
Kimberly-Clark Kleenex's new product - disposable hand towels.
http://www.kleenex.com/handtowels/
One use hand towels for the bathroom, dry your hands off ONCE and toss it away.
No, they are not made from recycled fiber, because according to their own website, "Because of the superior softness consumers expect from KLEENEX® Brand, KLEENEX® Brand Hand Towels are made with 100 percent virgin fiber. The product's unique, Cottony-Soft base sheet is free of inks, dyes and fragrances and is soft enough for faces yet durable for family needs."
And no I could not find any mention of the towels being biodegradable, but it did say that you could recycle the box, kudos.
The reasoning is germs, and apparently using a regular towel just isn't going to work now-a-days.
To quote their website again, KLEENEX® Hand Towels provide people with an alternative solution to traditional cloth bathroom hand towels, offering a clean, fresh towel every time. In fact, in the U.S. alone, people dry their hands on cloth bathroom towels approximately 200 billion times per year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for hand washing recommends hand drying with a single-use towel to help reduce the spread of germs."
I find it very frustrating when it is common knowledge that as a planet we need to reduce the amount of waste we create, so why make new products that have a completely backwards and 1950s approach of, "just throw it away!"
It's bad enough that the one use towels are in almost every public washroom, so why do we need to bring it into our home?
As human beings living on this planet we have a duty to take care of it, and so far, not so good. This may also seem like a small issue to rant about, considering the other environmental battles we are facing, like massive pipelines pumping oil through our forests, and onto tankers which will travel our coastal waters.
But maybe if we can tackle the little issues, and make people understand that these types of backwards products, thinking, and marketing need to stop. Educate people on why things can't be like this, then maybe, maaaaybe, we will have more voices behind us backing up the bigger issues.
But what do I know, I'm just one person who doesn't buy paper towel, takes the time to rinse out anything that can be recycled (and pays for it to be recycled because the area I live in still doesn't have a regular depo), but mainly tries her best to make choices that feel right when it comes to sustaining our planet.
And one-use disposable hand towels are not the right choice for me.
Kimberly-Clark Kleenex's new product - disposable hand towels.
http://www.kleenex.com/handtowels/
One use hand towels for the bathroom, dry your hands off ONCE and toss it away.
No, they are not made from recycled fiber, because according to their own website, "Because of the superior softness consumers expect from KLEENEX® Brand, KLEENEX® Brand Hand Towels are made with 100 percent virgin fiber. The product's unique, Cottony-Soft base sheet is free of inks, dyes and fragrances and is soft enough for faces yet durable for family needs."
And no I could not find any mention of the towels being biodegradable, but it did say that you could recycle the box, kudos.
The reasoning is germs, and apparently using a regular towel just isn't going to work now-a-days.
To quote their website again, KLEENEX® Hand Towels provide people with an alternative solution to traditional cloth bathroom hand towels, offering a clean, fresh towel every time. In fact, in the U.S. alone, people dry their hands on cloth bathroom towels approximately 200 billion times per year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for hand washing recommends hand drying with a single-use towel to help reduce the spread of germs."
I find it very frustrating when it is common knowledge that as a planet we need to reduce the amount of waste we create, so why make new products that have a completely backwards and 1950s approach of, "just throw it away!"
It's bad enough that the one use towels are in almost every public washroom, so why do we need to bring it into our home?
As human beings living on this planet we have a duty to take care of it, and so far, not so good. This may also seem like a small issue to rant about, considering the other environmental battles we are facing, like massive pipelines pumping oil through our forests, and onto tankers which will travel our coastal waters.
But maybe if we can tackle the little issues, and make people understand that these types of backwards products, thinking, and marketing need to stop. Educate people on why things can't be like this, then maybe, maaaaybe, we will have more voices behind us backing up the bigger issues.
But what do I know, I'm just one person who doesn't buy paper towel, takes the time to rinse out anything that can be recycled (and pays for it to be recycled because the area I live in still doesn't have a regular depo), but mainly tries her best to make choices that feel right when it comes to sustaining our planet.
And one-use disposable hand towels are not the right choice for me.
1 comments:
Molly, I applaud your lifestyle. If everyone did half of what you do, the world would be in a much better place.
Since living in Belleville (poor student syndrome) where I had to pay for garbage removal, I have started to watch what I buy.
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