On the line

I received an e-newsletter from e-mail from Project Laundry List today. I was surprised the impact of laundry, which uses a huge amount of our resources, wasn't being tracked as closely as other things, like transportation.

But it seems there will be a meeting to take a closer look at these issues. This is from the newsletter:

The statistics that our government keeps, which are used by hundreds
of businesses, utilities, and nonprofits, are often dismal. When it comes to laundry,
the numbers are terrible.

* There are no stats on commercial laundry done at Laundromats, hospitals, hotels,
restaurants, universities, fish piers, etc.
* There is terrible data about gas dryers, which about 17% of American households
have.
* They have this "5.8% of residential electricity use goes toward the electric dryer"
figure upon which we have built our organization's mission; however, they have no
footnote or any knowledge of how the number was derived.

I guess there will be a meeting to take a closer look energy consumption in general. I wonder if laundry will make the list?