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What is the Green Drying Project?

• Involves residents and organisations in finding practical solutions to a modern problem: lack of drying greens

Why?• 85% of modern housing developments have been

built without outdoor drying facilities• Housing costs and drying costs are high• Indoor drying means expensive tumble drier use, or

increased use of heating• Condensation contributes to damp housing and poor

health.


Facts: our research shows...

58% of the residents surveyed regularly put the heating on just to dry their washing

Over 10,000 homes in Edinburgh affected by having nowhere to dry their clothes outdoors

41% of who have a balcony reported restrictions on using it for drying

80% of respondents dry their washing in the home on drying racks

57% of respondents are restricted to use their outdoor space for drying

Indoor clothes drying releases 5 litres of water vapour per load. More than any household activity

Studies show that damp housing contributes to asthma and poor health

Over a quarter of respondents have washing drying 7 days a week

Average carbon emission for weekly use of tumble dryer is 390 kg per year


Common feelings

“My building is brand new, yet they never planned or thought of putting

a drying room or drying green in any block. The tenants consist of families with children and people with special needs. The buildings were earmarked for such people, as far as I know, before building

started, so it looks likethe lack of drying space was a

deliberate omission”

“My building is brand new, yet they never planned or thought of putting

a drying room or drying green in any block. The tenants consist of families with children and people with special needs. The buildings were earmarked for such people, as far as I know, before building

started, so it looks likethe lack of drying space was a

deliberate omission”


Common feelings

Why dry outdoors?

CheaperBetter clothes

Reduces damp

Eco-friendly


Tumble driers and the Environment

• Tumble dryers in the U.K. use more than £1.1 million of electricity every day—this is enough to power 2,650 homes for a year

• The electricity used by these machines is 3.5 kWh per cycle

1 cycle = 1.84 kg of CO2

Household with 4 weekly loads = 7.5 kg per week

1 kWh = 0.527 kg of CO2

390 kg of CO2 per yearfor weekly use

+ £70 per person per year to power each tumble dryer!!



• Using up the dry days in Scotland, we can reduce our carbon footprint from 10 tonnes of carbon per year to 9.61 tonnes; that’s nearly at 4% reduction in our individual yearly carbon emissions. Our collective carbon emissions would reduce to 49,862,400 tonnes a year (also a 4% decrease).

10 tonnes 51,940,000 tonnes

1 Scottish resident Scotland

Scotland’s Population

5,194,000

Average Carbon Emissions Per Year



If we take advantage of Scotland’s dry days to hang dry our washing, our

carbon emissions for the year would reduce to 195kg

we would reduce our carbon footprint from 10 tonnes of carbon per year to 9.61 tonnes; that’s nearly

at 4% reduction in our individual yearly carbon

emissions.

165.8 199.2

Eastern Scotland181.1 183.9

All of Scotland


Dampness: Bad for you and your flat

• People choose to hang their washing indoors because it’s cheaper and considered eco-friendly

Indoor drying

Damp flat

Bad for health & property

• Clear connection between damp, cold, and mouldy housing and asthma and other chronic respiratory symptoms


Dampness: Water Vapour

Source of humidity/moisture Litres of water vapour

Cooking Up to 3 litres per day

Clothes washing 0.5 litres per wash

Showers and baths 1.5 litres per person

Washing dishes Up to 1 litres per day

Un-vented clothes drying 5.0 litres per load

Unflued gas heater 0.5-1.0 litre per hour of use

Breathing, active adult 0.2 litres an hour per person

Breathing, adult asleep 0.02 litres an hour per person

For families, five liters easily increases with the amount of loads to at least 15, 20 or more litres of water vapour.


Lack of drying greens or space

Drying indoors

Tumble driers

Bad for environment

Bad for wallet

Bad for clothes

Bad for health

Bad for properties


What we can do

• Raise awareness of the scale of the problem • Demand our deeds be changed to allow the hanging of our washing in balconies and outdoor space• Demand that no planning permissions be handed out by the Edinburgh Council for flats without drying greens or space for residents to hang their washing


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