Top Reasons to Hang Dry Your Clothes
- Save money (more than $100 a year on electric bills for most households)
- Conserve energy and the environment
- Clothes last longer. Where do you think lint comes from?
- It is physical activity, which you can do inside or outside.
- Sunlight bleaches and disinfects.
- Indoor racks can humidify in dry winter weather.
- Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths and 400 injuries annually. The yearly national fire loss for clothes dryer fires in structures is estimated at $99 million.
