Notes while Traveling
A Review of 7 Days Inn Disposable Towels

By Amir Khan

At first glance, this seems something of an advanced and futuristic commodity, the brainchild of some savant Japanese inventor: novel, compact, clean and hygienic. Any cursory trip to Japan leaves the weary traveler turning over this question in his head: why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?

Well, in China, someone has: that someone is the 7 Days Inn hotel chain. These hotels provide economical room rates by shaving off costs in creative ways. Paper cups in the bathrooms (no glasses), a charge for using room chargers, 3 in 1 soap/shampoo/conditioner, and, the crème-de-la-crème, disposable towels.

I had a Chinese girlfriend once who was extremely wary of “public” towels and would bring her own towel on trips or dry her body with paper napkins. This invention would have been a godsend to her; had I known they exist, I would have gladly bought a few dozen for her beforehand for each trip.

She told me to imagine how many crotches any public towel had been run through. When she put it that way, I was inclined to ditch public towels myself. However, this is a slippery slope that would prevent me from enjoying any hotel stay at any location FOREVER.

I now wonder why hotels, instead of eliciting environmental guilt by pleading with customers to refuse daily “linen service,” do not instead adorn rooms with disposable bed sheets and pillow cases? From there, why not curtains, bathrobes, umbrellas, and even entire pieces of furniture as well?

Moreover, the argument that this would create MORE waste is not tenable. Who can know definitively whether it is more environmentally sound to throw away a single-use disposable towel (ten times THINNER than the more durable sort) or to waste countless numbers of kilowatt hours running washers and dryers?In short, the disposable towel is a useful product: but I tend to sidestep the moralistic and hypocritical Libtard appeals to “sustainability.” I have no idea and care not which option is “better for the environment.” And however many small placards any hotel tells you to place on your pillow, no hotel chain in the world really gives a shit about the environment either. The point is to cut costs for the producer while convincing you, the consumer, that the cheaper option is the better (or more “hygienic”) one.

All in all, a disposable towel is less hypocritical than a real towel. No real-world disposable towel is offered against the caveat of “protecting the environment.”

My only wish is for the labels on the packaging to go one step further in overcoming capitalist hypocrisy. Calling this product a “towel” is a stretch. Change the name to “body paper napkin” and the world, at least from a linguistic point of view, will truly be a better place.

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