Empower apartment residents to hang their laundry to dry
Many strata and co-op buildings prohibit drying laundry on balconies or outside. Hanging to dry uses far less energy than using a dryer. Pass a by-law: prohibit the prohibition!
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Falls under occupant engagement in energy conservation
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tamarialmond commented
also this is something really really easy to do and it would save so much!! please please consider this!
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tamarialmond commented
i totally agree with this idea. it is a huge energy pull!! big waste. my building won't let me have my drying rack on my balcony and the other day i had it out there for a moment while i was washing my floors and got a complaint!
i don't want to waste the energy and it also prolongs the life of my clothes.
the premiere of ontario lifted the ban there...
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Autos/20080418/clotheslines_ban_080418/Save consumers $30 a year as dryer use would be reduced by 25 per cent
Cut greenhouse gas emissions, as five dryers produces about the same amount of emissions as an average-sized car
Reduce demand on the power grid, as dryers use about 900 kilowatt hours of electricity a year.in other countries people don't even have dryers! and they don't want them.
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Naoko Ellis commented
by providing free out door clothes racks/lines for decks. BC Hydro was doing this for the residence of Victoria. Why not in Vancouver?