Come on, water is easily renewable and degradable. Plastic is definitely not and even though paper is recyclable, it costs a lot more energy than a fair amount of water and a drop of soap.
Good point. This also helps me guess whether hot-air hand-dryers are more efficient than paper towels.
(I had read “paper towels save energy compared to hot-air driers” and I thought “what about the paper?”, or was it “hot-air driers save paper compared to paper towels” and I thought “what about the energy?”? Or both?)
Come on, water is easily renewable and degradable. Plastic is definitely not and even though paper is recyclable, it costs a lot more energy than a fair amount of water and a drop of soap.
Good point. This also helps me guess whether hot-air hand-dryers are more efficient than paper towels.
(I had read “paper towels save energy compared to hot-air driers” and I thought “what about the paper?”, or was it “hot-air driers save paper compared to paper towels” and I thought “what about the energy?”? Or both?)