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Power saver ... take heat out of dirty laundry

14 Jun 2013

Households across Europe have been told to cool it in the laundry.


The soaps industry has launched a campaign to get Europeans to use a 30ºC washing cycle, saying just a 3º heat drop in a few countries would save enough energy to power a small city for a year.



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