Laundry
People like to have clean clothes. But how many resources does it take to uphold the "western" lifestyle of (for example) washing a shirt after wearing it no more than twice?
Research needed
Things to consider
- Soap and water involved
- Energy used by the washer
- Energy used in manufacturing the washer, divided by the number of washes expected of the lifespan
Approaches
- Calculate things per wash, or per clothing item washed
- Scale it up and see if it matches other datasets on energy usage by country by sector
(...)( Pick any 'first-world' country where there's data on the energy collectively used by washing machines. Compare with the energy used in manufacturing washing machines. Issue: are the washing machines manufactured in the same country generally? Probably moreso than smaller items are, at least...right? )