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Plymouth’s Cloth Napkin Initiative
By Amy Elbert (she/her)
Neatly stored in cabinets under the coffee
station in Waveland Hall are literally
hundreds of clean cloth napkins in a
multitude of colors and patterns – all
donated by Plymouth people.
Baskets of napkins are set out each
Sunday during fellowship in Waveland
and the members of the Plymouth
Creation Care & Justice Committee
launder and care for them. Cloth napkins
may seem like a quaint tradition from
your grandmother’s day, but in today’s
world of excessive waste they are an easy
and effective means to limit one-time
paper use and positively impact God’s
creation. We hope using napkins at
church may encourage the habit at home
and make your family more mindful of
single-use paper consumption.
Every year, logging destroys more
than 1 million acres of wildlife habitat
in Canada’s boreal forest. Sixty-five
percent of this harvest goes toward the
manufacture of napkins, paper towels,
and other single use products.
Please use the church napkins for any
food-related event at Plymouth. Leave
soiled napkins in the big basket and
creation-care committee members will
launder them at home. (Church staff
does not wash the napkins and we do not
use the church’s washer and dryer.)
If you’d like to get involved with
Creation Care & Justice,
scan the QR code or
click here if you are
reading digitally to visit
our Group page, then
select “Request to Join”.
For more information, contact Amy Elbert
(elbert.amylou@gmail.com).
Amy Elbert, a Plymouth Church
member since 1986 and a lifelong history
lover, serves on the Plymouth Archives
Committee and Creation Care & Justice.
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