if you shook your hands dry instead of a paper towel: what it is worth, in numbers

16 → 16 million kilograms co2e about 2,000 towels and about 16 kilograms of co2e a year.

method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Gregory et al. 2011, MIT), world-average where the study allows; the million-people column is straight multiplication. 'for scale' divides by 0.8 t CO2e, the meat-free yardstick.

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