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Make a CLEAN CHANGE. Recycle Your Old Washer.

ENERGY STAR Make a Clean Change: Recycle Your Old Washer Campaign

The ENERGY STAR Make a Clean Change: Recycle Your Old Washer Campaign is an engaging way to help your customers learn how much it costs to continue to operate an inefficient clothes washer and how they can properly recycle and replace it, if needed, with a new ENERGY STAR qualified model.

Millions of older, inefficient clothes washers are costing a lot!

  • Clothes washers manufactured before 1999 use more than 4 times the energy of today's ENERGY STAR models.
  • An estimated 84.1 million households have a top-loading washer; 24 million of these are ten years old or older. Combined, these inefficient appliances use $9 billion per year in energy and water costs.
  • Your old washer could be costing you more than you think — and wasting nearly 30 gallons of water every time you do a load of laundry. Over the lifetime of the washer, you'd be wasting water equivalent to ten and a half years of daily baths!
  • Every step we take to become more energy efficient and lessen our impact on global climate change is a step to preserve energy resources and our environment for generations to come. Just think: if every American home replaced its old washer with an ENERGY STAR qualified model, together, we would save:
    • Enough water to fill the Rose Bowl nearly 8,000 times.
    • Enough energy to light nearly 6.3 million homes for an entire year.
    • More than $5.3 billion in annual energy costs.
    • Annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the emissions of more than 1.5 million cars. That is more than the number of registered autos in Nevada and Colorado combined. Lined up bumper to bumper, those cars would stretch from Anchorage to New York.

ENERGY STAR partners are invited and encouraged to participate in the ENERGY STAR Make a Clean Change: Recycle Your Old Washer Campaign. Visit www.energystar.gov/recycle for more information and for marketing materials.

For many reasons, Make a Clean Change Today! To discuss your ideas, including partnering opportunities, contact the campaign staff at appliancecampaign@energystar.gov — we're here to help!

Thank you for your support of ENERGY STAR.