Environmental tip:
If you are like me, you love to wake up with a nice hot cup of coffee each morning. You may not know it, but coffee filters, paper towels, etc. are white because they're bleached. This is done for aesthetics; the process of bleaching paper is responsible for creating dioxin. Dioxin is a deadly toxin that has been dumped into our waterways. Americans buy billions of bleached coffee filters every year, and then throw them away after one use!
HOW CAN I SAVE THE WATERWAYS?
One way is to use reuseable coffee filters. I just bought a new coffeemaker two months ago and I was so pleased to learn that I could buy a reusable filter. I just wash it out after every use! When I clean my coffeemaker and pot by running a vinegar and water solution through it, I leave the reuseable coffee filter in place and it gets clean too.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Coffee Filters, Paper Towels causing Pollution?
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Using hand dryers is one of the easiest ways to get away from using paper towels. And the new ones are much faster so more fun to use. Plus they are more energy efficient. (But even the less energy efficient ones use less energy than it takes to make paper towels.)
Some links for high speed hand dryers:
US: RestroomDirect.
Europe: Bavada.
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