YOUNGIDEAS conscious care Take time to love and care for your clothes for more wardrobe longevity and less environmental impact Why we love line drying: Firstly, it’s a great money saver and eco-cred-earner thanks to the massive energy conservation that comes with turning off the dryer. Line drying also maintains the shape and foundation of your garments, meaning they will last longer. UV rays are also quite effective at killing pathogens. Here are some simple ways Micro Fibres awareness: to clean up your laundry: Guppy Friend Washing Bag The devastating effect that 1. Buy fewer, higher quality £25 microscopic plastic particles pieces of clothing in natural are posing on the planet’s 80 79 fabrics oceans and marine life is now well reported - and 35% of it 2. Wash less often and refresh is coming from our laundry! garments by airing or with Nine million micro昀椀bres are fabric sprays released into wastewater on 3. Use fabric softener to average every time we put reduce friction between 昀椀bres a wash on and treatment plants are unable to 昀椀lter them 4. Wash at a low temperature out. Experts say this could 5. Avoid long wash cycles be detrimental to our health 6. Invest in a ‘Guppy Friend’ and lead to reproductive (guppyfriend.com) - a small problems, cancer and DNA damage. The danger lurking mesh bag that captures in our laundry is invisible and many of the micro昀椀bres that - until now - has largely been shred in the wash a case of ‘out of sight, out of 7. Use a low spin speed mind.’ CLOTHESCARE