ecological washing machine 100%, which does not need water or chemical products to fulfill its function. It only uses oxygen.
It’s not all bad news. Today we have once again been able to take another step forward in defense of the planet.
Today is definitely a great day. And we want to share it with you. The news comes to us from the hand of El País. It is a ecological washing machine industrial that does not require water or soap for its operation, only oxygen.
In this article we explain how it works and what are the advantages it brings to the environment.
The pants, about 20, are introduced in a ecological washing machine Industrial-sized with uncommon features: no soap or water needed, but washes jeans twice as fast as conventional technology. As explained yesterday by the director of Jeanologia, Enrique Silla, the invention of the Valencian company, which is being used by firms such as Ralph Lauren, Zara and Levi’s to give garments a finish vintage, save 62% electricity; 67% water, and 85% chemicals. The savings per jeans would be 0.38 euros, which could lead to lowering the price paid for jeans in the store by up to 5%.
The basic element of the process is air. The ecological washing machine it transforms it into a mixture of gases that the company’s technicians have baptized as “plasma” and that resembles (but is not exactly) ozone. The pants turn inside completely dry. The machine is responsible for removing the many impurities left behind by the production process and giving the garment the “stone washed” look.
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“Nature would need between seven and 10 years to carry out such a wear process,” says Roberto Muñoz, head of Jeanologia’s technical department. The ecological washing machine, reminiscent of a futuristic machine from the sixties, does it in 15 minutes. When they open it, at the end of the process, the basement of the company’s R&D headquarters, in the Paterna Technology Park, is filled with a smell similar to that of a highly chlorinated swimming pool. Muñoz affirms that it is the same smell that remains after lightning strikes. Ozone smell.
According to the company, the ecological washing machine giant, call G2, It takes air from outside, transforms it into “plasma” and, before finishing the washing, subjects the gas to a temperature of 300 degrees, which converts it back into oxygen. If the whole pants and t-shirt industry vintage used the technology, they say, in a year they would save 4,500 million kilowatt hours; 2.4 million tons of detergent and 1,200 million cubic meters of water. The drinking water consumption of Valencians for six years, or the electricity spent for two years by Nepal, a “small” and “underdeveloped” country, the director had to admit.
Jeanologia has distributed around twenty ecological washing machines in the main production centers, especially in Asia and North Africa. It sells an average of two a month, but the goal is to reach 10 by the middle of next year, if the crisis gives a break. The company specialized in textile technology has a hundred employees and invoiced 25 million euros in 2008, 15% more than the previous one, explained Silla yesterday.
Origin: The Country
