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Scotts shop towels (the blue rolls) are American, and that seems to be all that's sold around here, including at Canadian Tire.

Any alternatives? I already use reusable rags, buy I need something disposable and also stronger than paper towels.

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[–] cecilkorik 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can throw away rags. It doesn't feel great, but they're not that expensive depending on how you get them and honestly a shockingly enormous quantity of old clothing ends up in oceans or landfill no matter what, so if some of that clothing does an intermediate step getting recycled into rags before getting thrown out it's probably not such a big deal.

That said, Scott's towels are pretty awesome, I love them and would find it a bit hard to live without them too. I'm minimizing my use of them now and still have a pretty good stockpile but I'm curious if there are any good alternatives too.

[–] Showroom7561 2 points 2 days ago

I already use rags (and recycle old fabric into rags I can use), but usually reuse them if they aren't soaked in anything dangerous. The economics of shop towels vs rags is just too great for me to throw rags away.

I'm on my last roll of Scotts, but I was disappointed to see that they are American. Surely we have competing alternatives!