They are perhaps two of the worst, most environmentally unfriendly devices that we all seem to have a home. Yet we are so attached them, they spew out chemicals, and drains energy like mad but they also keep our hands wrinkle free, and accomplishes a job that would have other wise taken us hours to accomplish. And having this luxury, has also created couple other wasteful habits. We tend to wash our clothes more often since it's so easy, draining extra resources to clean things that aren't really dirty.
What I would propose to do would be firstly to try to wash our clothes less often; maybe that pair of jeans can be worn more then once or twice. And to also consider hand washing in cold water. But if you're that attached, there's always setting your washing machines to cold water even if it's for a couple loads, you might even be surprised at how much you end up saving. If you wash four out of every five loads of laundry in cold water each month, you’ll save about 35 kilograms of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere. If you wash 80 per cent of your laundry on the cold/cold cycle every year, you’ll save up to $100 or more on your energy bill.
The Drying Machine is also just as bad, it's one of the leading contributers to your monthly electric bill (especially at my house with three families living together). But if you give this action much thought, it seems strange to be paying so much just to do something a hanger can do for so much less. So it may take more time and it wont make your clothes smell better. But hey you already had a level of fragrance from detergent washing. So perhaps next time when you're not in too much of a rush to have things dried, you might want to just air dry them.
