Go Paperless for Thanksgiving Dinner

Americans use a lot of paper products. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, about 544,000 trees are used to make paper towels for U.S. households, and if you think that's bad, wait until you hear how many trees are required to make dinner napkins: If every household replaced one package of 250 virgin fiber napkins with recycled (or better yet, cloth!) napkins, we could save 1 million trees.

Even if you're using recycled products, the energy required for recycling paper, the chlorine used to bleach recycled paper products, and the chemicals in the plastic packaging for many paper products is pretty hard on the environment. So instead of switching to recycled paper, maybe it's time to cut your paper footprint.

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