SBA Green Team Tip of the Week (4/13/09)

I know cold-water washes are greener, but will they get my clothes clean?

For a hot-water load, about 90 percent of the energy used to wash clothes goes to heat the water, not agitate your clothes. The good new is, washing your clothes in warm or even cold water will get rid of almost anything, except for the worst dirt or oily stains.

Recommendation: Switch from hot to warm water to cut energy use in half; cold, to cut it even more.
Taken from “Going Green, The Reader’s Digest Version” by Andy Simmons and Additional reporting by Ed Goralski and Mary Atkins

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