The other day I’m waiting for the light to turn green behind this truck. This truck has this sticker on it. This sticker says “Save time and water, use your local coin laundry.” Coincidently enough I was driving to the coin laundry, but that’s another story…
Anyhow, the save time part I can understand (although it’s debatable): you can do several loads at the same time. But how do you save water?! Is the sticker alluding to the fact that you’re just not using your house’s water? Are the coin laundry’s machines more efficient? Do they use recycled water (yucko)? Was that just misleading advertising? Am I stupid for missing the obvious answer? Should this have been posted to GQ (JillGat scares me)?
Depends on the laundromat, I’d imagine, but just guessing I’d say the claim would apply if (a) the coin laundry has front loaders. They take less water; or (b) commercial washers have a higher capacity than residental washers. I am sure that the water needed to do a huge load in a single machine is less than the water needed for two loads in two smaller machines.
Not all coin-operated laundromats save water. But MOST of them use front-loading washers, which generally use a lot less water than the top-loading models. That’s the main reason the government is taking great pains to encourage the manufacture and sales of front-loading machines… even though they’re currently far more expensive.