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Follow on Google News | PeopleTowels, Instead of Paper Towels, a Simple New Way to Reduce Carbon EmissionsClimate Counts Supports PeopleTowels’ Latest Findings
By: Linda Lannon 23 lbs. in one year. "PeopleTowels is such a common-sense idea that makes it so clear what we can do to reduce the waste we generate in our everyday lives. What's less clear is how much our wasteful lifestyle increases our carbon footprint," comments Wood Turner, ClimateCounts.org, Executive Director. "We need to understand more clearly how a culture of reuse can not only reduce what goes into landfills, but it can also limit our collective impact on global climate change. PeopleTowels has taken an important step in putting its unique concept into that critical context." The average person consumes 3,000 single-use paper towels (equivalent to 8 large garbage bags) outside the home, annually. PeopleTowels' latest findings hope to bring more awareness to the public regarding the environmental impact of paper towel waste in the U.S. and encourage individuals to adopt the company’s self-coined "B.Y.O.Towel ™" eco-habit. "Our goal is to eliminate paper towel use outside the home by at least 50 percent by 2015," declared Mary Wallace, PeopleTowels Visionary and Co-Founder. "Meeting this goal would result in an annual reduction of green house gas emissions from paper towels used outside the home from the current 3.8M tons to 1.9M tons." PeopleTowels' carbon emission calculation was based on the average quantity of paper towels (3,000) used by one person outside of the home a year in the U.S. and referenced information from the Environmental Protection Agency's Waste Reduction Model (WARM) (http://www.epa.gov/ About PeopleTowels PeopleTowels, LLC, the pioneer of the reusable personal hand towel category in the U. S. believes that every person can have an impact on the environment by making small lifestyle changes. PeopleTowels’ ®2009, PeopleTowels is the registered trademark of PeopleTowels, LLC. All Rights Reserved. # # # PeopleTowels™ End
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