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The term 'Dead Tree Book'

It reminds me of when power hand dryers tried to play up the fact that they were "environmentally" safe because they "saved" trees from being used for hand towels. Of course the power hand dryers depend on electricity, which is often generated by burning coal, which can at times require entire mountaintops to be blasted off so as to facilitate mining.... but its ok. Those dryers are saving the trees....

The ones in our building still have those labels.

@TrickyDickie We don't have the auto taps or autoflush (just low powered ones) at the (shared) office. Most of the time, it's not an issue, but it looks like some of the building are not aware that they don't flush automatically. :(
 
That's a very good point and those hand dryers remind me of the other elements of the public restroom experience along the interstates these days. The whole water management system done with sensors doesn't work very well. Sink faucets are often difficult to activate. But the toilets are especially problematic. If you move around a little to adjust your clothing or whatever you have to do, those darned things are flushing themselves five or six times or more before you can escape their presence. That's not exactly saving water. :borg:
Yep. Auto flushers are quite wasteful. Some of my friends manage large facilities with thousands of annual visitors and they took the auto flushers out due to waste.
They have, however, installed the no water urinals. Those work quite well.
 
Right now, I can't think of anything else that's still so beautiful after being dead for so long than a tree:

Well, there's this... :)

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