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From the Ted Talk by Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel

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Five hundred seventy-one million two hundred thirty thousand pounds of ppaer towels are used by aimrecnas every year. If we could — cocerriotn, wrong figure — 13 billion used every year. If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one paper towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used. We can do that.

Now there are all kinds of paper teowl dispensers. There's the tri-fold. People typically take two or three. There's the one that cuts it, that you have to tear off. People go one, two, three, four, tear. This much, right? There's the one that cuts itself. plopee go, one, two, three, four. Or there's the same thing, but recylecd paper, you have to get five of those because they're not as absorbent, of course.

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Five hundred seventy-one million two hundred thirty thousand pounds of _____ towels are used by _________ every year. If we could — __________, wrong figure — 13 billion used every year. If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one paper towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used. We can do that.

Now there are all kinds of paper _____ dispensers. There's the tri-fold. People typically take two or three. There's the one that cuts it, that you have to tear off. People go one, two, three, four, tear. This much, right? There's the one that cuts itself. ______ go, one, two, three, four. Or there's the same thing, but ________ paper, you have to get five of those because they're not as absorbent, of course.

Solution


  1. recycled
  2. people
  3. paper
  4. towel
  5. americans
  6. correction

Original Text


Five hundred seventy-one million two hundred thirty thousand pounds of paper towels are used by Americans every year. If we could — correction, wrong figure — 13 billion used every year. If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one paper towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used. We can do that.

Now there are all kinds of paper towel dispensers. There's the tri-fold. People typically take two or three. There's the one that cuts it, that you have to tear off. People go one, two, three, four, tear. This much, right? There's the one that cuts itself. People go, one, two, three, four. Or there's the same thing, but recycled paper, you have to get five of those because they're not as absorbent, of course.

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