I finally got around to doing a load of washing after dreading it all week. I’ve been thinking about my challenge and I wanted to try something different and try find out if there was any other ways which handwashing could benefit the environment further, and also my clothes. After a few quick google searches, I realised that using cold water would conserve even more energy. I already had known this fact, but it had never occurred to me to use it washing my clothes. I tried it and, honestly, it doesn’t make that big a difference. I thought it would’ve been much harder getting them properly clean or the detergent to lather but luckily that wasn’t the case. Even if I was to go back to using a washing machine, this challenge has made me realise that there are ways of using the machine that would impact the environment less; such as filling the rum to it’s maximum capacity to reduce the amount of loads that need to be done, or putting them on a cold wash rather than a hot wash if they don’t really need it.
