Editing Clothes line (section)

==Comparison with clothes dryer==
[[Image:Clothes line.JPG|thumb|A rotary, or ''[[Hills Hoist]]'', type of clothes line]]
[[File:Wooden clothes pin.JPG|thumb|Sundrying in [[Hermiston, Oregon]].]]

Both clothes lines and [[Clothes dryer|clothes dryers]] serve the same purpose: drying clothes that have been recently washed, or that are wet in general. A laundry line saves money<ref name="nytimes" /><ref name="washington post" /> and a clothes dryer emits (2&nbsp;kg [[Carbon dioxide equivalent|CO<sub>2</sub>eq]] of greenhouse gas on average per load).<ref name="ecofx">{{Citation |title=Environmental impact of a clothes dryer and a clothes line |date=January 10, 2008 |url=http://ecofx.org/wiki/index.php?title=clothes_dryer |access-date=January 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206030605/http://ecofx.org/wiki/index.php?title=Clothes_dryer |archive-date=February 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |publisher=ecofx}}</ref> Dryers also cause more fabric wear than clotheslines.<ref name="washington post">{{Citation | last=Aun | first=Leslie M. | title=Nature's Dryer Revisited | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=August 17, 2006 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081600394.html}}</ref> Neighbors may find clotheslines aesthetically unpleasant.<ref name="nytimes" />