A surprising sneak peek at the clothesline revolution
November 17, 2009 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter, Green Tips
Well, maybe in this aspect, Singapore’s a world leader. We let all our laundry hang out in the heartlands and dry au naturale! And to think some people consider this unsightly and lacking class!
From Grist.com:
Alexander Lee founded Project Laundry List as a Middlebury College undergrad in 1995, after hearing Dr. Helen Caldicott say we could shut down the nuclear industry if we all did things like hang out our clothes. He’s been true to the cause ever since, pushing for clotheslines across the land—even at the White House…
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.