Cloth napkins , kitchen towels,
cloth reusable rags and unpaper towels.
These don't have to be fancy or expensive. I took the left over fabric from our kitchen curtains and hemed the edges and made cloth napkins and we use white kitchen towels for wiping up spills and wiping off the counters or table. You can get them on etsy.com and they come in a huge variety of styles. Have fun going green!
Facts: from
Greener: Cloth—CottonIf you are hugely careless in your treatment of cloth napkins and dishtowels (like running a load of hot-water wash for a few barely-soiled napkins), paper can be the more eco-friendly option. But if you approach your cloth towels and napkins conscientiously, cloth is the greener option. Some say that washing cloth must be more energy-intensive than using paper, but electric dryers are actually twice as energy efficient as the manufacture of paper towels. When you factor in all of the components of making a paper towel or napkins (harvesting the material, processing and bleaching it, packaging it, shipping it, stocking it at a supermarket, transportation to and from the store to purchase it, etc). all for a single use, you find that the paper towels and napkins are about twice as energy-intensive and create more greenhouse gases overall. A cloth napkin or dishtowel may go through similar processes to get to your kitchen drawer, but it will stay there for many, many years, rather than being sent directly to the landfill.
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