There are few things as pleasant as driving about in a shiny, clean, spot-free car. While you might feel better about yourself in a freshly washed car, it’s not quite as nice for Mother Nature. Knowing that, and perhaps in light of the crippling drought it’s experienced, the #dirtycarpledge has taken hold in Los Angeles. But what about those of us who live in a part of the country where it isn’t eternally warm and sunny? You know, where a rust-inducing mixture of rock salt and snow cover the roads. This might not be a surprise to some of us, but professional washes tend to be not only a lot more convenient than a home wash, but much kinder to the environment. Citing LA Magazine, Boston.com reports that the typical home wash uses more water \u2013 85 gallons per wash compared to 56 gallons per commercial wash \u2013 and can cause more pollution. “We are also good at using types of solutions that are environmentally friendly,” Danny Paisner, a Boston-area car wash owner, told Boston.com. “They go through on-site grease and water separators and go to treatment facilities.” Obviously, no such facilities exist when you’re washing a car in the driveway. So the next time you look at your car and decide it needs a good scrubbing, rest easy knowing that a visit to the drive-through wash is, environmentally, the next best thing to not washing at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\nThis might not be a surprise to some of us, but professional washes tend to be not only a lot more convenient than a home wash, but much kinder to the environment. Citing LA Magazine, Boston.com reports that the typical home wash uses more water \u2013 85 gallons per wash compared to 56 gallons per commercial wash \u2013 and can cause more pollution.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n