Did you know that we're wasting an average of 13 billion pounds of paper towels each year? That's a lot of wasted trees being chopped up just to dry your hands.

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Joe Smith, the former chair of the Oregon Democratic Party, says we can conserve over 571 million pounds of paper towels each year if we all kept to just one sheet per use. Check out his TED talk below, where he demonstrates the art of the perfect paper towel technique: