“Don’t blow it–good planets are hard to find.”

–As quoted in TIME Magazine

From a family visit over ten years ago to the Norfolk Botanical Garden in Virginia.

An easy change that we can all make for our planet is to limit the number of napkins we use each day. At restaurants and coffee places, many of us grab like, forty napkins and end up using only one or two. At the end of the year, that averages to be about 220 napkins per person!

We can each try to use at least one less napkin a day to help save a billion pounds of paper waste from going to landfills each year. And at home, try cloth napkins and wash them in cold water to save energy. Linen napkins are light, and they can probably share the washer with another load of laundry.

SOURCES:
“The Great Napkin Debate,” Good is Green
“The Napkin Defense,” Chow
“As Seen On Oprah’s Green Episode,” EasyEcoLiving