So, you may want to figure out how to use few paper towels in your home. One of the most popular disposable hand towels for home use are from the brand Kleenex, a giant in the paper product industry.

Abby hears from a woman who finds a roll of paper towels useful in a frequently-used bathroom, but her husband thinks its tacky, while a man is miffed by women who love their dogs, and a widow ...

No one cares, so long as they can be clearly identified as hand towels—not a bath towel, not a floor towel. To that end, they must be smaller than these other towels. Other than that, go wild.

Which of hand dryers or paper towels have the greatest impact on the environment? asks Simon Lockrey. Are your paper towels recycled or tree-pulped, your dryers power-hungry and long-blowing or ...

Dear Abby: Rather than constantly launder hand towels, I started putting paper towels in the bathroom for guests. My husband says they're tacky. Your thoughts?

The paper-towel-vs-hand-dryer debate makes headlines whenever a study comes out in favour of one or the other. Look at who doles out the money for these studies, though, and you'll see it's ...

And, again, the high speed dryers came out on top. This result held even when fewer than two towels per dry were used, and when the paper was 100% recycled, both in manufacturing and disposal.