{"id":14810,"date":"2012-08-30T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2012-08-30T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:08:24","slug":"cheap-mini-washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/cheap-mini-washing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheap Mini Washing Machine that Runs on Foot Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hand washing your clothes<\/a> is a less resource intensive option than using a machine… but if it’s your only option for all of your laundry needs, you’d probably start looking for a more efficient choice. After all, do you want to spend hours washing your \u00a0clothes? If you live in the developing world, that may be the only alternative for clean clothes, though: hand washing in a river, lake or other body of water. It takes a lot of time, it puts a lot of wear on the clothes, but if you don’t have electricity, what other choice do you have?<\/p>\n

Philadelphia University industrial design students\u00a0Aaron Stathum<\/a> and Eliot Covena started playing around with that question, and came up with the Up-Stream<\/a>, a washing machine that requires only four readily available items to build, and some human power<\/a> to run. Take a look at the short video they produced to see how this device is made and operated:<\/p>\n