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WASH YOUR CLOTHES IN COLD WATER
the energy used to wash clothes heats the water, a practice that is increasingly unnecessary as advances in clothes washers and laundry detergents have made it possible to get white and colored clothes perfectly clean in cold water. Except when washing out particularly tough stains, such as oil, every load of laundry done in hot water wastes energy.Wasted energy contributes to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.

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