P&G: Colder washes can save clothes and slash emissions

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P&G: Colder washes can save clothes and slash emissions

'Long Live Fashion Formula' to promote how a lower impact laundry regime can save millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions

Consumers could quadruple the life of their clothes and deliver massive environmental and cost savings in the process, simply by switching to colder and shorter washing cycles. That is the conclusion...

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