LAUNDRY

This is simple. In the UK 36.3 million m3 water is used doing laundry, which is too much. One way to keep this usage down is to wash our clothes less. Each time you get undressed, just look at each item of clothing; give it a sniff. Do you really need to wash it?

A great way to freshen up clothes between washes is spritz them with some homemade fabric spray. Add a dash of your favourite essential oil (we like lavender) to some water in a spray bottle (which you can reuse!) It lasts for ages.

To keep your environmental impact low, when you do a load of washing, make sure:
- It’s full
- You are washing at the lowest temperature possible
- You’re using non-polluting laundry liquid (some can be very toxic to wildlife in our waterways.)

FURTHER READING
UAL’s Emma Rigby has written this, about the environmental impact of washing our clothes.

This is an interesting piece of research created by Wrap. Scroll to p31 to find out more about environmental implications of laundering our clothes.