Alison wipes down a mattress and I close my notebook.
So using face scrubs full of plastic microbeads or disposable wipes just make you look like you're time efficient and keen to exfoliate (no mention that you're irreversibly polluting the ocean).
Beyond the "dirty junkie" cliches and the fear of disease, one of the reasons why heroin is still taboo is that it wipes away the sense of responsibility to the collective, to the herd.
Every sort of muck: cans, bottles, fag ends, wet wipes, plastic, rotting snacks, tissues, and mountains of dog shit.
She smiles, wipes off the makeup, replaces the compact on the table and disappears into the crowd.
Jobs in London, where the bank employs 6,000, are expected to be under threat as the loss almost wipes out the planned $1.5bn of cost savings that the bank hoped to make after announcing 3,500 job cuts across the group in August.
The company specialises in security software and makes the Clean Master app, one of the top non-gaming downloads from Google's store, which wipes junk files from Android phones.
Standing tall amid the latticework of burnt orange and blue that embroiders the north-western highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, Armando Acevez takes a sleeve in his hand and wipes it across his sweaty brow.
Her family claim she spent at least two of her seven years at the hospital confined to her bedroom, not leaving even to bathe or use the toilet, instead washing herself with wet wipes and using a bedpan.
The bigger the project, the more susceptible it is to delays and UBS's Mr Gilles estimates that a two-year delay in nuclear projects wipes out 20-25% of the project's value to investors.Political risk is a problem, too.
Critics say it wipes out food crops and may damage health.
