Wash the green way
Do you help your mom and dad wash clothes? Then wash them i    an energy-saving way. A recent study by Cambridge University f       that 60 percent of the energy used on a piece of clothing is s       in washing and drying it. Over its lifetime, a T-shirt can s        up 4 kilos of carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) into the air.
If you wash your own clothes, wash them in cold or warm water to s       energy, but not h       water. Wash your clothes when they fill up the machine. Use the most energy-saving machine you can find. Some new ones use as l      as one-fourth of the energy of older machines. When they’re c        , dry your clothes the natural way, by h      them on a line instead of putting them in a dryer (烘干机). In all, you can c      the carbon dioxide used in washing by 90 percent.
We may not be leaders or scientists, but we can play our part in protecting the planet.