
More and more Americans are fighting for the right to hang their linen on drying on the street, despite objections from housing associations, which believe that this contradicts aesthetic norms, Prian.ru reports.
The interests of people who want to dry the laundry on the street are the organization “Project Laundry List). Recently, in the states of Florida, Utah, Men, Vermont, Colorado and Hawaii, laws have been adopted that limit the rights of the“ on the ground ”to prohibit residents of linen on the street. Similar initiatives are preparing in five states.
Housing associations unite about 60 million Americans. At about half of these organizations, prohibitions on hanging underwear on the street are applying. In case of violation of these restrictions on members of the association are punished with fines that can reach $ 100.
Supporters of hanging underwear on the street indicate that this leads to a reduction in emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide, since people stop using electric or gas dryers. Monetary savings for a family of five can reach $ 83 monthly.