Bedbugs in search of cheap travel options would be well-advised to consider humans’ dirty laundry, suggests a reading of this study: “Bed Bug Aggregation on Dirty Laundry: A Mechanism for Passive Dispersal,” William T. Hentley, Ben Webster, Sophie E.F. Evison, and Michael T. Siva-Jothy, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 11668, 2017. The authors, at the University […]
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Disrupting inconspicuous consumption in laundry routines (studies)
“I think the jeans can’t smell any worse. You can’t get them any dirtier then what they already are, it’s like salt; you can only dissolve a certain amount of salt in water before the water can’t take any more in. It’s the same with jeans and smells and bacteria, you can only put so […]
A particular effect of laundering on knickers
Tanya Dann, in completing her studies for a masters degree in clothing and textile science from the University of Otago, wrote this thesis, which has more than a touch of the forensic about it: “The tearing behaviour and effect of laundering on knicker fabrics,” Tanya Jayne Dann, thesis, Master of Science, University of Otago, 2011. (Thanks […]
How Starbucks turns old coffee and old muffins into laundry detergent
“Starbucks turns coffee grinds and old muffins into laundry detergent“, says a second-hand report in the journal Focus on Surfactants [volume 2013, issue 3, March 2013, page 3]: “The method involves using a mixture of fungi to help break down the carbohydrates in the stale baked goods into simple sugars. The blend is then fermented […]