My Carbon Footprint: YouTube can’t save us from a white goods wipe out
The IndependentSign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s the fourth time I’ve done this journey in three months – a 100 mile-ish, multiple-hour round trip to pick up a used dishwasher and cart it back home. But half the nation’s e-waste is white goods, so the dystopian piles are equally as likely to comprise fridges and freezers, washing machines, tumble dryers – and those dishwashers. A third of us – around 14 million consumers – are now buying sustainable domestic appliances as a priority to combat plastic waste and their general carbon footprint, according to Lupe Technology. Meanwhile, a small regiment of defunct dishwashers is now lined up expectantly by the back door, we’ve hurtled through a big chunk of electricity on an appliance tour of the southwest, even if it has come from solar, and we’re still washing up by hand, with its inefficiently high level of water use.
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