Drying your clothes in the sun is easy to do and saves electricity.
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April 13, 2021
“Hang-drying your laundry is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to save energy, carbon emissions and money,” says Joe Wachunas, a program manager at an organization in Portland, Ore., that advocates electric transportation. More than two decades ago, Wachunas traveled as an exchange student to Italy, where only about 3 percent of households own a dryer. He has been evangelizing sun-dried clothes ever since. A few years back, a local television station featured him on a segment about line-drying to fight climate change. “They filmed me hanging up my underwear,” he says.