April 19th is National Hanging Out Day

Every April 19th Project Laundry List works with hundreds of other organizations to sponsor National Hanging Out Day.  This holiday encourages communities to learn about the financial and environmental benefits of line-drying laundry.  Considering the frequency with which we launder, if even just a portion of our populace turned to our most powerful natural energy source — the sun — imagine the impact it could make.  According to Project Laundry List’s website clothes dryers account for and astonishing six to ten percent of residential energy consumption.  And this is even more shocking: it takes more energy for the average American to run a clothes dryer than the average African uses in an entire year.  To educate the public about these little-known, but important facts activists have been hanging their laundry in public and creating “laundry art” on National Hanging Out Day since 1995.