To test detergents, our engineers launder fabric swatches that are saturated with blood, body oil, chocolate, coffee, dirt, grass and salad dressing. So our test engineers recently put laundry sheets from six brands-Earth Breeze, ECOS, Ecowise, Kind, Sheets Laundry Club, and True Earth-to the test. But do they clean your clothes as well as liquid detergents, pods, or packs?ĬR has long tested and rated liquid detergents, pods and packs. So laundry sheets can lighten the load on our recycling bin and on the environment. According to the most recent EPA data, 14.5 million tons of plastic containers and packaging were generated in 2018, making up 5 percent of municipal solid waste.

“This leaves less of an environmental footprint than the plastic jugs that liquid detergent and plastic containers pods or packs come in.” “They generally use cardboard packaging, and because they are concentrated and without water, the package can be small,” says Rich Handel, Consumer Reports’ laundry expert. Laundry sheets also eliminate the need for all those plastic bottles. The latest green 'solution' is laundry sheets-liquidless detergents designed as eco-friendly alternatives to chemical-laden bottle detergents that pollute our streams, landfills, and at times, even our clothes. So it’s not surprising that consumers are rethinking their use of liquid laundry detergents and going in search of alternatives that will save water, energy, waste, and stress on Mother Earth. That’s not counting the plastic detergent-bottle kettlebells we struggle to lift off shelves.

Every time we do laundry, we’re dumping chemicals, microfibers, and gallons of water down the drain.

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