Page 28 - Material Flows of the Home Appliance Industry

All these elements contribute to make home appliances part of our daily life and looking at a few of them, for 2016 we can estimate that EU inhabitants:
Washed more than
148 Mt of clothes,
corresponding to 290 kg/person per year, almost
1 kg/person per day1
Washed
282 billion
place settings, corresponding to
533 settings/person per year2
290 kg / person 533 settings /person
1Source: 220 cycles/year (EuP Study) and 3,5 kg/cycle (CECED).
2Source: 280 cycles/year (CECED) and 10 place settings/load (CECED DW campaign).
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