Monday, June 12, 2006
Eco-stuff: Stunning news flash (not)
Well, I was going to spew righteous venom about Guantanamo Bay, but Hazel's beaten me to it today. So instead, he's an eco-newsflash from the Treehugger blog - wash your clothes less.
Not entirely surprising - but it does contain one valuable nugget - the washing, drying and ironing (?) of jeans constitutes 47% of the total environmental impact. Apparently. Including the transportation, which I was a little surprised at.
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Is that a made-up statistic, I wonder?
And I've just made up the statistic that 65% of that 47% is down to using a tumble drier, so that I can feel smug in my not-owning-a-tumble-drier superiority.
- H
Well, they are French.
mmm, but think of all the solar energy you're using up in drying your clothes outside, not to mention the airborne soaps you've created. Surely tumble-driers are better? (84.2% of me thinks so)
(sulkily) you're all mocking me.
Nonsense. We're not mocking you. I personally hereby swear to not ironing more than one leg of my jeans at any given time.
Ha! I've already thought of that. I dry my clothes inside, using one of these (but with 6 bars). It uses otherwise wasted heat radiated from the boiler.
- H
The irony of one-legged jeans.
you iron jeans?
You iron?
Touched by his irony appendage.
I have a 100% efficient solar/wind powered clothes dryer, commonly known as a clothes line. My home, as us white trash like to call that thing we live in, in Mississippi, that once had wheels under it, is shaded in the summer, by a huge tarp, suspended from the surrounding trees. My power bill is now half in the summer heat. I compost most of my organic waste for growing some of my own food, so no one has to burn fuel to carry the trash away, or my food in. Low-tech solutions work fine in this high-tech world.
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