No Laundry Day

We often wash items that don't really need washing, or maybe we run the machine when it's less than full. Each wash uses huge amounts of energy and water, costing us money and releasing plastic microfibres into our waterways. If every UK household ran just one less wash a month, we could save 15.6 billion litres of water and 120,000 tonnes of carbon emissions over the year. That's the same as heating 43,000 homes for a whole year... so just imagine the savings for our bank accounts too!’

If an item of clothing needs ‘freshening up’ rather than proper cleaning, an hour or two on the washing line in the fresh air do the trick – and cost you (and the planet) nothing.