How To Use One Paper Towel #TED #Ecology #Portland

[pokerfan]

You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.

Shake! Fold!

Joe Smith served as a District Attorney in Umatilla County and nearly won a race for Oregon Attorney General without taking a single contribution over $99.99. He is a former chair of the Oregon Democratic Party and is active with several local nonprofits.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. Cute. Although that guy used more paper towels in four minutes than I use in four months

Paper towels and paper napkins are just bad habits, a bit like salting your food before you even taste it.
Once you break the habit, you really don't miss 'em.

[rug]

2. I'd shake your hand but, well, you know.

[RufusTFirefly]

3. LOL! Good one! n/t

[Merlot]

7. Agreed that you really don't miss them - I haven't bought them in years, until recently...

They were having a demo at the store for Bamboo paper towels. You use them and through them in the washer instead of throwing them away. I tried one and it does work really well, and they dry out quickly. Haven't tried washing it in the laundry yet.

With these, one roll of paper towels could last a year or so.

[tclambert]

4. "And next year . . . toilet paper."

I cringe at how "Shake! Fold!" applies to that.

[Gore1FL]

5. I saw this earlier and have put it into practice.

It's amazing how well folding the thing in half does for absorption.

[mia]

6. Love it!

Thank you for posting this.