We are allowed to use clotheslines again. Thanks to an April 18th move by the Ontario provincial government to ban municipalities from banning household use of clotheslines. If you are Toronto resident you can hop on this green, energy saving bandwagon right away.
Toronto Hydro’s Take a Load Off Toronto campaign is giving away 75,000 clotheslines to city of Toronto residents. 50,000 were distributed over the past two weekends and starting at 10am, Saturday May 10 and Sunday May 11, the last 25,000 will be given away at 24 Toronto retail stores, 500 clotheslines per location. The program also gives participants discounts on Cold Water laundry detergent and compact fluorescent light
bulbs (CFLs).
The clotheslines are able to deliver some impressive energy savings. According to Toronto Hydro, if 75,000 Toronto Hydro customers use their free clothesline for just 25 per cent of a household’s drying needs, together they can save enough electricity to supply close to 1,908 homes. What’s more, Hydro says using a clothesline could translate into a savings of $30 or 225 kilowatt hours (kWh) a year.
The clothesline giveaway is part of a larger project. In 2005, Toronto Hydro committed to cutting the City’s peak demand by 5 per cent or 250 megawatts (MW) by the year 2008. Total investment by Toronto Hydro-Electric System in these programs since 2005 is $62 million and energy savings achieved to date total more than 300 megawatts – enough
to power 300,000 Toronto homes.
Please check,
http://www.torontohydro.com/electricsystem/powerwise/conservation_progr
ams/take_load_off/index.cfm for details on specific locations.
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