It may be hard to imagine but you can live without paper towels entirely. Try it. That's the idea. Just stop buying them. Use rags. Cut up old underwear, Tshirts, socks, towels, sweatshirts, whatever. Use them over and over and wash them when they start to smell bad. The water and power you use to wash them will in no way come close to the oxygen we lose when forests are demolished so we can pulll a paper towel off the roll whenever are hands need a drying.