Rethinking Laundry in the 21st Century

[JerseyMike]

Fascinating!

I live in an apartment and can't have a line. I have two racks that are in almost constant use. I also sometimes put up a small line in my back hallway.

My 85 year old mother gave the dryer that came with her house to the Salvation Army two weeks after we moved in. She never used it. She has two lines in her backyard. During the winter months, she hangs her laundry in the upstairs hallway.

Mike

Rethinking Laundry in the 21st Century

Living with clotheslines and cold water, from campuses to hotels to prisons.

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com

 

[pulsator]

If you scroll down a bit to the Ozone generators, that's exactly what we use where I work! I work at a "green" fitness center. We wash our towels with one cool water wash and two cold water rinses with the ozone generators running throughout the cycle!

 

[chestermikeuk]

21st century Laundry

Hi Mike, very interesting article, what goes around comes around,

Jamie, do the ozone generators process the used rinse water or all water entering the machines??

 

[panthera]

Oh, gosh

I didn't see this when I posted my link!
Sorry!
I'll add a redirect to yours here.
Panthera

 

[pulsator]

The ozone generators pump ozone into the sump area of the machine while it's filling or filled with water and bubble it up through the load. As soon as the drain valve is opened, the ozone shuts off. The ozone runs on all water changes.

 

[toggleswitch2]

I'd like to hear and learn more about ozone and ozone genrators.

One must be very careful in that ozone (o3) "sticks" to the hemoblobin in human blood more than 10x stronger than oxygen(o2) and can casue aspyxiation in that once the ozone is attached to the hemologin it won't let go (fast or easy enough)-- you can't easily get fresh oxygen and dsipose of the CO2 your body produces.

Like everyting else in the world, care and moderation is required.

 

[frigilux]

I'm a fairly recent convert to line-drying from April-September; started three years ago. I stop doing it early in September, as my job gets very busy by then, so I'm rarely home during daylight hours.

I kept track, and found I line-dried 102 loads this year. Saved a lot of wear and tear on the dryer, and had a lot of great-smelling bed linens.

I live in a very small town, and no one would dream of banning clotheslines! It's an ingrained part of rural culture, I guess.

 

[toggleswitch2]

There are so, so, so, many ways to save the environment.

 

[hydralique]

Togs . . .

That commercial is just brilliant!

 

[danemodsandy]

Anyone...

...Attempting to have clotheslines banned should have their power cut off until they come to their senses.

 

[maytagbear]

Again--about line drying

May I remind some of you that not everyone has the possibility of line drying? I do not have a backyard, and if I dried my clothes in the front yard, they would be coated with road soot, or "walk away to a new home."

Line drying, when possible, is wonderful. So is a good dryer.

Lawrence/Maytagbear