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Originally Posted by kosmom
*TRY to cut back on paper towels/paper wipes. I'm going to try using scrap flannel fabric cut into small squares to use for the kids' napkins, as well as wipes (my quandary is, will it take *more* energy to wash all those wipes each week than it would harm the earth to put the paper towels/wipes into landfills? )
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I don't think so, because there is so much involved in making paper products. Growing/cutting down trees, processing (which includes a lot of chemicals and water), shipping them to warehouses, shipping them to the store, you buy them, use them once and then they go in the trash afterwards. I may be missing a step there too, that's just what comes to mind.
We have some wipes/washclothes that are several years old! We bought some thick MotherEase cloth wipes that are six years old and they are holding up soooo well. No holes or anything.
We still use some TP, though the kids prefer cloth wipes and I do about 50/50.
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dd1 (12),
ds (10) &
dd2 (7)
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Always remembering my youngest brother JK, forever 14 months old