Ninety percent of the energy used by laundry machines is for heating the hot water. Cold water washes also prevent colors from bleeding or fading, and can leave your cloth... read full tip

Ninety percent of the energy used by laundry machines is for heating the hot water. Cold water washes also prevent colors from bleeding or fading, and can leave your clothes feeling just as clean as a hot water wash.

If every household in America with a laundry machine used only cold water to wash clothes, we'd save about 1 billion kilowatt hours, enough to power all the households in Athens, Georgia, for an entire year!