| As every day goes by there seems to be yet | | | | planet. |
| another doom and gloom news report about the | | | | One very green scheme that is being piloted by a |
| general decline in the state of the planet and the air | | | | very forward looking European town is selling |
| that we breathe. I think we all appreciate that it is | | | | subsidized paper towels to homes to cut down on |
| about time that we all started to do a little more to | | | | the amount of bath towels, hand and beach towels |
| save the planet but other than doing our bit with the | | | | that need washing. Bath and beach towels take a |
| garbage, conserving gas and electricity and running | | | | massive amount of energy to clean and to dry as |
| our motor vehicles more economically what else can | | | | well as taking a substantial amount of energy to |
| we do? | | | | produce in the first place, not to mention the harmful |
| Using a little common sense when running a bath and | | | | chemicals used in the bleaching and dying of the |
| ensuring that you don't over fill it with hot water and | | | | fabric before manufacture. The thinking behind this |
| then have to cool it down with cold water is a basic | | | | scheme is that if you can use a paper towel to dry |
| waste of energy as well as heating the house when | | | | yourself or your dishes, for example, then the |
| you are not at home, your furniture doesn't mind | | | | amount of towels that need washing in the area will |
| being cold so turn the heating off when you're not at | | | | be reduced, saving energy as well as water and |
| home. You'll save money as well as save the planets | | | | reducing the amount of detergent in the water |
| resources. | | | | coarse. |
| Another simple tip to remember include not putting | | | | All up this seems like a wonderful scheme to adopt |
| the dish washer on to run its cycle until it is totally | | | | for a town. Obviously paper towels can not be used |
| full, running a half full dish washer twice uses three | | | | for every drying scenario but where they can be |
| and a half times the energy of running a full dish | | | | used they can make a vast difference to the |
| washer once. The same goes with the washing | | | | amount of energy saved. As a final hurrah for the |
| machine, try to only run it for a full cycle when it is | | | | town all of the used paper towels are collected in |
| full, when the washing is finished hang it outside to | | | | special bins at home and then in turn collected by the |
| dry for a while rather than putting it straight in to the | | | | council and taken to a special paper towel re-cycling |
| tumble dryer. Even if it looks like it might rain soon if | | | | depot where the towels are dried out and then |
| you get half an hour of drying by nature and then | | | | pulped to be used as animal bedding or even eco |
| have to transfer the washing to the tumble dryer to | | | | friendly fuel for open fires.And when you consider |
| finish off you will save a huge amount of electricity | | | | that the paper towels are made from sixty five per |
| over the course of the year. This might add a bit of | | | | cent recycled material in the first place this really is a |
| inconvenience to your life but what amount of | | | | green town looking to the future. |
| inconvenience will it cause us all when we kill the | | | | |