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Rethink your laundry

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

RedEye reporter

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Washing your clothes in cold or warm water instead of hot saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, according to climatecrisis.net. Drying your clothes on a clothesline six months out of the year would save another 700 pounds.