You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. TED Speaker, Joe Smith reveals the perfect technique and only one paper towel is needed!
We’ve all seen it - hundreds of single-use paper towels piled up in the washroom bins overflowing onto the floor. Using a handful of paper towels every time we dry our hands is often unnecessary and it certainly does nothing for the environment. Here’s how to dry your hands with just one paper towel and save time, money and precious resources.
13 billion pounds, which translates to 5,896,700,810 kgs, of paper towels are used every year by (US) Americans! Cutting down paper towel usage may seem insignificant. However, TED speaker Joe Smith believes that if everyone used his technique and followed this process we could save around 571 million pounds of paper every year and that's in the United States alone. Paper towels for one are not recyclable once used, which leads to over 6 million tons of paper towels littering the landfills every year. Limiting our paper towel usage with the Smith's method will therefore allow us to help relieve this environmental concern.
The average person uses around 3,000 paper towels at work in a given year.
This 4 minute talk could change your whole perception on how many paper towels you really need... Watch the enlightening and funny talk, where Smith reveals all.
The secret to drying your hands, according to Joe Smith, is to shake your hands several times (he recommends 12 shakes) to remove most of the water from them, before folding a single paper towel and patting the remaining moisture from your hands.
It's as easy as SHAKE, SHAKE, FOLD.
We challenge you to try it out the next time you are drying your hands using a paper towel.
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