Eddi Rhedfern's science project 2017
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Clothes Peg
The clothes peg is something that only certainn households use, others us dryers or racks but that still leaves a wide range of people.
Pegs are very useful but why make them out of plastic? Plastic pegs are good because they hold your clothes well but they also break easily, I have spent many hours down by the washing line looking at broken fragments of yellow plastic in the mud. Also I have calculated that the average sunshine peg weighs 7.2 grams which and most houses that use pegs have at least 20 to 50 pegs so roughly 252 grams of pegs are used in each household.
Alternative reusable options
There is no need to use plastic clothes pegs anymore. Change to Bamboo clothes pegs. The Plastic clothes pegs often make their way onto beaches by falling off the line and getting flushed out to sea with storm water. These bamboo clothes pegs are sturdy and strong. Also, unlike wooden pegs, the bamboo pegs won’t stain light coloured clothes because of the low tannin content in bamboo.
| 7.2 grams | Median weight of a Clothes Peg |