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Ten Reasons to Take a Cloth Napkin (Hen House Linens Product Review)


Full Disclosure: I received a set of dinner napkins from Hen House Linens (& I love them)!
How many of you grab a couple of extra napkins every time you're at your favorite coffee house? I've definitely been guilty of that one, but let's stop to think about it. There are numerous environmental reasons that using cloth napkins is preferable to paper ones. Aside from saving trees, you're also saving water used in the manufacture of paper napkins.

Truthfully, there is a reason that paper napkins are so ubiquitous. They are convenient, useful, and you can easily just throw them away. However unfortunately, they don't really go away. According to Organic Authority, landfills are stuffed with 3,000 tons of paper tissue products daily. This produces harmful greenhouse gasses.


Source: US National Archives, Wil Blanche, 1973 via Flickr Commons
A 1970's landfill. Yuck.
And think about it, isn't it kind of charming to pull a brightly-colored, soft cloth napkin out of your pocket rather than grabbing for that dull, brown paper one?



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