Eco Balls

I read an opinion on DooYoo back in 2005 which raised my curiosity. It was an opinion on some strange objects called Eco Balls and, from the opinion, it seemed that these gadgets were set to revolutionise the way we did our washing making it more economical and environmentally friendly to boot. Trusting both the reviewer and the review I decided that these Eco Balls sounded so good that they had to be tried. What a mistake! It should be added that I still trust the reviewer and would count the person amongst my friends. The same, however, could not be said of my new investment. Eco Balls come in sets of three. They are made of perforated green plastic ...

Sam said to me one day, “Why don’t we try those Eco-Balls?” ~~~ Never having heard of them before I didn’t know what the heck he was on about and just ignored him as I usually do, but he persisted, so, in between reading aimlessly surfing and reading other peoples top quality reviews, I headed off to my search engine and stuck the words “eco balls” in it. ~~~ Up popped the Green shop website and, coincidentally, their home page happened to have an article about these Balls and they sounded very enticing. Apparently you put some plastic balls filled with eco friendly stuff in your washing machine instead of the more usual soap powder, tablets or ...

My laundry always looked clean but a few things were worrying me. It was quite expensive. I used Ecover Laundry Liquid because of its minimal impact on the environment, but it cost about 16p per wash just in liquid alone. It was more if I used a fabric softener. Quite a lot of the bulk in my supermarket shop each week was laundry liquid and softener. I had to carry it home, but how many hundreds of miles had it travelled before it got to the supermarket? How much pollution had that caused? I was using long cycles on the washing machine, but most of it was simply rinsing out the detergent. How much water was I wasting? That’s all changed now – I’ve ...