My memories of handkerchiefs are from primany school as more of an uniform accesory. Since they were all starched up they were useless to blow your nose in and later on came the hygenic argument. Or the handkerchief as an old romantic item : to wave goodbye with, used by high life ladies to flirt, etc.
Recently I’ve seen them come into use again, amongst young people. Since it defied my image of the hanky it made me give it a second thought. And soon enough the “eco” argument popped up, as hankies are reusable and kleenex-types are not.
A short googling later I discovered Greenpeace beat me to the punch and already have had for some time a program called Kleerkut.
Apparently the Kimberly-Clark corp(makers of Kleenex) uses only 19% recyclable material in making tissues , the rest coming from a big old forest in Canada- figures being just for North America.
To support the boycott Greenpeace is providing us with the solution as well: organic(duh!) hankies 3 for 10 $ .
Alongside greenpeace and before myself other eco-conscious blogers(not that I am claiming to be one) like ecospace and wasteweardaily and stumbled upon this matter.
hankies do have another one over the tissues… “hanky” sounds way cuter.
