Green Your Laundry
Environmentally Friendly Laundry involves the use of high efficiency washing machines, environmentally friendly detergent, and cold water. A conventional washing machines uses a lot of water for every use, most of which is wasted. Detergents are very toxic, and those toxins eventually make their way into our water supply.
HIGH EFFICIENCY WASHING MACHINES
High efficiency washing machines are usually front loading. Top-loading, vertical-axis washers are basically an automated washtub, filling with water to wet all the clothing and swishing it about in detergent. Front-loading, horizontal-axis types partially fill with water and whip the clothes through, like a mill wheel in a stream. They’re actually gentler on fabrics, quieter, and, from my experience, do use far less detergent. And yes, they can hold just as many clothes as your old machine.
DETERGENTS
Laundry detergents are very toxic and end up polluting our waterways. Conventional laundry detergent is petroleum based, which is a non renewable fossil fuel. If every household in the United States replaced just one bottle of petroleum based liquid detergent with a vegetable based product, we could save 460,000 barrels of oil, enough to heat and cool 27,000 homes for a year!
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has been a major catalyst in the green detergent revolution, the article states. Using its purchasing power as the world’s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart launched an environmental initiative last October to encourage its suppliers to manufacture more environmentally friendly laundry detergents.
COLD WATER
One mistake people make is washing their clothes in hot water when it isn’t necessary. Today washing machines and detergents do not need hot water to clean your clothes. Dark colors should always be washed in cold water, and white clothes in cold or warm. Hot water is never necessary and wastes the natural gas used to heat that water which is harmful to the environment.
THE FACTS
An older top-loading washers use about 40 gallons of water per load. New efficient, front-loading machines use 16 to 25 gallons per load.
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