The average household does about 540 loads of laundry per year which consumes up to 21,000 gallons of water. In fact, 90% of the energy in washing machines just goes to heating up the water.
I know I am very guilty of doing small loads of laundry at times just because there is one article of clothing that I want to be clean. However, it is extremely wasteful and its time to make a change.
Today, we are going to start washing our clothes in cold water and putting together half loads to save energy and water. As college students, most of us have to pay for our laundry so we will not only be saving water but money to! In order to measure this, we will only do one load of laundry per week and it must be a full load!
Doing just a couple less loads per week really does make a difference in saving water.
Good Luck! Happy Washing.
-Ellie
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Great Idea Ellie. I also think that it is really helpful that here at Elon, the washing machines are high efficiency which means that with each load they use 40% less water than the traditional washing machine. Also there is detergent that is made for use with cold water, so if you don't feel like your clothes are getting clean enough, then you could switch detergents.
ReplyDelete-Liza
that is a great idea. I know sometimes out of convenience I just throw in a half load to get it out of the way. Another tip is that you have to watch whites and colors separately but you can dry them together which would be easy and would free up dryers for other people.
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