Semana 17 - 11/05/2012

Ted Talk - How to use a paper towel by Joe Smith

• http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_smith_how_to_use_a_paper_towel.html
• For me it's astonishing to think of how wasteful people can be without even really realizing it. For example Joe Smith exemplifies how 13 billion pounds of just paper towels are used yearly by Americans! If you observe people usually take 3-5 pieces of paper just to dry their hands. At the moment it doesn't seem that significant although if everyone did that every time they washed their hands the number of 13 billion pounds of paper would increase dramatically. In this case we have Joe Smith to show us how to ecologically dry our hands by the "shake and fold" method. This way we get some of the water off by shaking and utilize the most of a single piece of paper towel by folding. The whole concept of this idea seems silly at first but helping reduce things like the waste of paper will help conserve earths resources and true beauty.

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