A surprising sneak peek at the clothesline revolution

When looking at this picture ,I don’t know to how to express my feeling .

It’s a great idea but having a inconsistent weather it’s a bit difficult to implement. As a lot of people in the city nowadays go to work leaving no one to mend the house, it creates more problems like thefts, rain etc. If the clothes are to be accumulated and washed over the weekend…This is another problem. But it a great campaign.

that is normal so many peoples can not pay laundry because there income just for dayly life

Most of the people in my place hang their laundry outside, it’s good to know that we contribute to the go green program :)

actually lot of people in indonesia especially in urban village do that thing,like me in bali we always hang our clothes and we never use machine to dry ours.

well,,,thanks God if that habbit is a “green” one. i live in Jember, Indonesia and i do it everytime i wash my clothes. and for my environment, washing machine is a luxury device and cost lot of money and electricity so,,we never had any of it.

the practice is environment friendly but to some is eyesore, especially in highly developed countries like singapore, as an architect i think both can be achieved without compromising the other thru brilliant design ideas. like concealing with plants the direct view of the clothesline yet ex[pose in sunlight to the full.

my family didnt use a machine loundry, we use sun for tje loundry
^^v

maybe people just want to be ‘in’ with the gifted majority. in malaysia, we still have alot of space to have a clothes line around your house,inclusive of apartments and condos, if well planned and architectured.

I really agree with those campaign. However, it only took a few hours to make your clothes dry after the spin. Plus the sun will make your clothes more clean from germ. That clearly a benefit for us!

During 40 years of marriage I have always used a clothes line, here in Australia we have the climate to allow us to hang our washing on a line.

When my son married an american and brought her here to live in Australia some 13 years ago, she was surprised at the washing lines in everyones back yards. She commented that only poor people in america use a clothes line, everyone else dries their clothes in a dryer!!

It didn’t take her long to realise that drying clothes on the line versus using a clothes dryer meant a difference of some few hundred dollars a year in power costs!!

There is definitely nothing nicer than bringing in beautiful smelling washing that has been out in sunlight. Not only that but as someone else commented, the sunlight can destroy germs too!!

This is really a great campaign. Here in the Philippines, most of the Filipinos hang their clothes outside their houses to let it dry directly to the sunlight. This what I always do, ever since I got married. It’s good to know that I contributed to the go green program.

Hi. I had been to certain cold countries and they do use a dryer/heat machine to dry their clothes. I used that too when i was there. Certain places like new zealand. Sometimes the weather is just too harsh for ya to hang it out. =( However back in Singapore, there is no need for the dryer/heat machine as the weather is really hot. A well spun clothes that is hung out in the afternoon sun, can be completely dry within 3 hours or natural sunlight and wind? Why waste the space to buy a electrical dryer/heat machine and the money to pay for unwanted use of electricity? It kills the environment and our cash =)

It’s a great campaign so let’s give it a try. Instead of raising eyebrows, why think of win-win solutions instead. For instance, make a space for you to properly hang your close indoors. That way, you save the environment and you have hang clothes aesthetically.

Well, in India the weather permits us to dry out clothes on a line outside. Also must agree that sun-dried clothes are much better than those dried inside. As someone said it disinfects.

True. In India, clotheslines are the most common mode of drying. Definitely very environment friendly. Use of electric dryers has a big disadvantage of shrinking certain kinds of clothes, so natural sun drying is THE BEST.

Green by hanging cloth under the sun / wind?
This is very basic method to dry clothes. EVen if not related to green also we will do it.

Here in Manila Philippines, They dont want us to dry our clothes outside. I mean the only place that sun could reach is the front part of the house since there is no backyard yet they dont want us to use the space. Bayani Fernando MMDA Chairman of Arroyo Adminitration says it’s an awful sight to the tourist. Grrr

Dear Global Friends,

This is just a small part of the factors that causes the problem.
The big powers or leaders of all countries must not give any excuses
or side-stepped reasons to hide their big projects for spoiling the world’s
land, sea, outer space and air contamination and pollutions.

They must lead a good moral example as they are trusted and voted
by their respected and patriotic people.

But some of the management of the apartment in Malaysia disallow people hanging cloth to even at the yard within the apartment.  

The sweet thing about living in tropical. Like us. Indonesia.

True! My grandma, mum and now me and my children hang our laundry out in the sun. Lucky for us, we don’t have a management who says no laundry in the yard!