Line Dry

Posted On April 14, 2008

Filed under Organizations, Saving Our Glorious Earth

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Project Laundry List is promoting National Hang Out Day on April 19th. So please hang your laundry out that day.

Some facts for you:

  • Save money (more than $100/year on electric bill for most households).FN1

  • Conserve energy and the environment.FN2

  • Clothes and sheets smell better.FN3

  • Clothes last longer. Where do you think lint comes from?FN4

  • It is physical activity which you can do in or outside.FN5

  • Sunlight bleaches and disinfects

  • Indoor racks can humidify in dry winter weather

  • Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths, and 400 injuries annually. The yearly national fire loss for clothes dryer fires in structures is estimated at $99 million.FN6

Project Laundry List’s board meeting is coming up soon which I’ll be going to. That’s right, Project Laundry list is here in New Hampshire. Alex Lee who is the Executive Director is a very nice guy who is very dedicated to changing the world for good.

There are chapters one can join in California, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maryland. Certainly you can start one in your community if there isn’t one already.

Here’s a list of communities, nationwide, which ban line drying. Is your community on it?

4 Responses to “ Line Dry ”

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  1. Noelle

    This is one of those things that I would love to get behind if I had a washer or dryer on my property. But as it is, I have to drive 20 minutes to the laundromat, and driving home with wet clothes is too much for me, psychologically.

  2. Howling Hill

    Before I had a washer/dryer I wouldn’t have been able to handle line drying either. It would’ve just been too overwhelming otherwise.

  3. peppylady

    I already hung laundry to dry.

  4. Dave Boyce

    I’m a reporter for a small weekly newspaper in the SF Bay Area.

    I don’t know where you’re located, but do you know of any contacts in California who are working toward a “right-to-dry” initiative such as reportedly passed in Vermont recently?

    Please write or, if necessary, call at 650-854-2690, ext. 210.

    I am writing this story this week so I need to talk with people in California ASAP.

    Thanks very much. – Dave Boyce

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