{"id":14396,"date":"2012-05-05T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=14396"},"modified":"2012-05-05T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T15:59:00","slug":"dry-hands-one-paper-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/dry-hands-one-paper-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Dry Your Hands with Just One Paper Towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to use one paper towel | Joe Smith | TEDxConcordiaUPortland\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2FMBSblpcrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK, hand drying really isn&#8217;t a necessary activity: I try to remind myself whenever I&#8217;m washing my hands in a public restroom that I&#8217;m not really drying my hands; I&#8217;m just drying them faster. They&#8217;ll dry without any aids. But if you really don&#8217;t want to walk out of the restroom with damp hands, you&#8217;ve got better options than the typical fistful of paper towels. You could carry your own <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2008\/03\/paper-or-hot-air-bring-your-own-hand-towel\/\">microfiber towel<\/a>, or you could make more efficient use of the available paper towels.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Joe Smith shows us just how to do the latter in his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/tedx\/events\/tedxconcordiauportland\">TEDxConcordiaUPortland<\/a> talk above&#8230; and reminds us that if we all just used one less paper towel per day, we&#8217;d collectively save a <em>lot<\/em> of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to dry your hands in public with just a single paper towel&#8230; and cut your own paper consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2],"tags":[544,134,525,5727,58,5728,5729,262],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dry Hands with Just One Paper Towel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Think you need a fistful of paper towels to dry your hands? 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