London celebrates Environment Day with world's longest clothesline

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London, June 6. (AP): Environmentalists hung 1,13,000 feet (34,400 meters) of laundry out to dry in Trafalgar Square on Monday, part of a multi-agency effort on U.N. World Environment Day to protest British reliance on energy-sapping dryers.

``You're looking at the biggest one-line joke in history,'' the project's supervisor and British comedian Tim FitzHigham said to the assembled crowd ..

The decision to focus on air-drying laundry was Britain's particular stamp on the international event,the ``main force of our argument,'' McGowan said.

The Environment Agency said that if each family in Britain hung up just one load of washing each week, that would save 88 million pounds (euro128 million; US$166 million) and prevent over 5,00,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year ..

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[Ilsa]

1. That's me! Using my clothesline almost every day!

I'm in south texas, and if it isn't too humid, clothes get dry in about 15 minutes in the summer. Not only do I use less energy (gas), but I use less electricity since I don't have to cool the house from the dryer heating that room.