More wibble

[cybermule]

Apparently (according to the Guradian on Saturday), 80% of the pollutants in the life of a piece of clothing come from its laundry, rather than its production. I found that quite interesting, especially as I'm a strong advocate of not laundering your clothes to excess.

If it doesn't smell, and it doesn't look dirty, why wash it? Except through some social notion of how often you should wash your clothes.

I also got my guide to the South-West coastpath through the post. Yay to Ebay. I can't wait to get out there and do some hiking :)

Comments

[aras-55555.livejournal.com]

Do people wash their clothes when they're not dirty or smelly? How odd.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Some people change their clothes more than once a day, even, and always chuck their clothes in the laundry at the end of each day.

[zleetle.livejournal.com]

my clothes always look dirty :( But Im starting to suspect its the wash I use... last week I was out of the natural stuff and used one thing of Tide and everything got bright and clean in one wash. Now I'm stuck between washing clothes less and using bad soap, or washing with natural soap and clothes always looking a bit off. Blah.

This has nothing to do with frequency but I've been debating it since last Saturday, when I did my wash :p

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Heheh. I don't use the natural stuff. Never have, so I can't give you any feedback from my experiences. But I only do about one wash a fortnight, so I don't stress about it too much. Tide will just be full of lots of things that make it look cleaner, without actually making it significantly cleaner. Reflective agents, whiteners, colour enhancers. It's jsut a con :)

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

80% of the pollutants in the life of a piece of clothing come from its laundry, rather than its production


hahaha the irony is thick!


If it doesn't smell, and it doesn't look dirty, why wash it?


It's obvious: so that it falls apart sooner, so's you can buy a *shiny new* one sooner!

In all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that companies manufacture clothes to fall apart sooner based on the ingredients used in common detergents... Planned obsolescence is used for everything else, why not clothes?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Actually - it does knacker your clothes up. I've got clothes from when I was 14, and I swear it's only because I don't obsessively wash them all the time.

Heh - and who likes shiny new clothes that much anyway? I don't really like mine until I've had them about a year :P