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Our final energy saving tip is to avoid using the clothes dryer. These use a huge amount of energy and take hours to complete. Washer dryers are even more inefficient using up to 10% of a house’s energy bill when used regularly.


Instead of using the dryer, use a spin cycle after finishing the wash to get rid of any residual water and then hang them up to dry. Putting the drying rack close to a radiator will make it faster; be sure to not cover the top of the radiator as it will take longer to heat up. If a house of 6 who each do 1.5 washes and dries per week, change so that they only use the dryer every other wash will save £ 14 and 28 kg of CO2 per person per year.


If every student across the university made this change, there would be 830 kg of CO­2 released into the atmosphere every year.


We hope that all these energy-saving tips have given you ways to save energy and help the planet. It shows that our day to day decisions make a big difference on the CO2 released. When it comes to thinking about energy UoBe Smart.

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