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Environment & Energy

matt819

(10,749 posts)

2. Guilty as charged

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Mon Dec 10, 2018, 01:37 PM

Dec 2018

For many years I used the various brands of wipes - Clorox, Lysol, etc. I started feeling guilty about the wastefulness - paper and the plastic containers it comes in.

So I went back to paper towel for cleaning my countertops. Spray bleach-based cleaner, wipe, done. Germs killed.

Sponges just spread germs around.

Unless bacteria behaves differently in the rest of the world, I'm stumped as to how those folks are cleaning their surfaces.

As for hand drying or dish drying - cloth - that's a no brainer.

But the idea of using sponges to clean countertops and stove surfaces is appalling.