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 COÂ2 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.