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Calculate Your Laundry Footprint

Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA

By Jasmin Malik Chua
Jersey City, NJ, USA | Sun Mar 23, 2008 01:21 PM ET

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Your whites may be dazzlingly white, but how green is your wash? Get sorted into the right pile with the Sierra Club's simple quiz, with 10 questions that suss out the frequency of your washing, the cost of your monthly dry-cleaning bill, and the temperature of the water you use, among other laundering inclinations.

Have a yen for quizzes? Don't forget to test your plastic , polar bear, and green I.Q.s. ::Sierra Club

Difficulty level: Easy

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