Originally Posted by
operator
We don't use disposable towels. It's wasteful and there's no good way to clean them. Our shop is on a commerical rag service. We dirty them they take them away every so often clean then and bring it back.
This is like the debate between using disposable diapers and washing and reusing cloth ones. The environmental costs of both are nearly identical. You don't discard the reusable ones and they don't contribute to landfill but transporting them to and from the shop and cleaning them has a significant environmental cost also.