When you find yourself with sticky fingers at a ball game, fast food joint, or coffee shop, it's all too easy to grab a stack of 15 napkins, even if you only end up using one... read full tip

When you find yourself with sticky fingers at a ball game, fast food joint, or coffee shop, it's all too easy to grab a stack of 15 napkins, even if you only end up using one or two. Why not take just what you need? You'll do more than just reduce waste-you'll save water.

Paper napkins, like all tissue products, are created from the cleaning, conditioning, and bleaching of wood pulp. This process consumes huge volumes of water-an estimated 10,800 gallons per ton of paper products.

You alone could help save nearly 9 gallons of water per year just by cutting back your daily two-ply napkin habit to just one a day. If all Americans took this to heart, the annual water savings would total more than 2.65 billion gallons-enough to saturate the fields of 72 major league ballparks every day of the year.

Kimberly-Clark's Sustainability Report