Panthera....I hear you on the detergent chemicals there.
My relatives in Mannheim are split down the middle on "Umweltsprodukte".
My poor aunt...I break her chops relentlessly with the cleaner bottles with the "Frosch" on them, going "grrribit, grribit"...lol!
Something tells me there are no frogs on the bottles in Bratislava, though...
I have to say, they really do work hard at trying to be responsible, though.
On the Coldwater Tide...I can't imagine that much light being provided by one washload....maybe twenty fluorescents, at a 100-watt incandescent-watt equivalent?