Ditto dish towels. A fresh paper towel is a better choice. But you can't use them for everything. Here are five "aha!" uses for those handy helpers and four things you shouldn't use them for ...

Paper towels are rarely recyclable because of their low quality, unlike newspaper, which can still be recycled into a number of other items including egg cartons and cereal boxes. After use ...

I am totally against paper unless you are having a bagel for breakfast on the run. I use cloth napkins or beautiful old dish towels that are ironed. I have a huge collection of fine linens ...

Instead of reaching for single-use options to wipe up spills ... After that, it mostly boils down to personal preference. Most of the reusable paper towels we researched ranged anywhere from ...

There are easy ways to ration your existing paper towel rolls, and other, more readily available items that you can use instead of reaching for the kitchen roll. You might even find that these new ...

No illness was found to be connected to paper towel use. Scientists wrote that the findings in their paper towel study are consistent with high bacterial counts found in other products made of ...

MONTREAL—A Canadian study may give you pause for thought next time you reach for a paper towel in a public washroom. The study finds bacteria thrives on the paper products, even on unused towels.

Substituting coffee filters works in a pinch so well that some folks forgo paper towels altogether and use coffee filters to sponge up any mess. Still, there are a couple of drawbacks. Coffee ...