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  Hankies are the Softest

  I've been using hankies for about a year now, and in my experience they're way better than tissues - better for your precious nose skin. New ones are rough when you buy them, but if you just throw them in the wash with your clothes for a few weeks, they soften right up. I've found great, pre-softened ones at thrift shops, and I've never tried e-bay, but it sounds like a great idea. One of my favorite things about the hanky is that they're stylish - they come in lots of colors and if you wear them in your back pocket, they stick out a little bit and it looks cool. Way cooler than nasty tissues! On A nosy review of recycled facial tissue posted 9 months, 1 week ago 12 Responses

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  terrible efficiency?

  re: "Its booming economy, terrible energy efficiency, and substantial appetite for coal..."

  I don't understand where this "terrible efficiency" statement is coming from. If China's producing less CO2 per capita than the US (4 times less), it sounds like the country is doing pretty well efficiency-wise. Obviously, the US has set the bar pretty low when it comes to energy efficiency, but to say that China's energy use is inefficient, and to point a finger at them for producing the most CO2 in the world (when they have the biggest population in the world and produce many - if not most - of the consumer goods that we Americans buy) is a nasty and unsubstantiated form of scapegoating. The US is clearly the world's leading polluter, and although it's clear that China (and every country everywhere) needs to improve its efficiency, Americans need to stop looking at growth in China (and India) as a central problem and instead focus inward on our own culture of consumption and waste.On China's carbon emissions highest in the world last year, study says posted 1 year, 4 months ago 7 Responses