Everyone is talking and thinking about sustainability: What do we want to leave behind for future generations? How can we act in order to achieve our sustainability goals? We all know: There is no plan(et) B. Which is exactly why there is WeWash. Together with you, we are helping to make this world a more environmentally sustainable place when it comes to doing laundry.
By the way, when it comes to environmental sustainability, i.e. the responsible and considerate use of natural resources, we set a good example: Our parent company BOSCH is the first global industrial company which is CO2-neutral since the end of 2020.
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How we do our laundry?
Sustainably.
How we do our laundry?
Sustainably.
Sharing machines conveniently while saving 49% of CO2 – an example:
The WeWash principle for your laundry room: A WeWash shared laundry room is always the right choice if you want to achieve your sustainability goals. Take a look at our case study1 for a 50-unit residential building and see for yourself what the future of sustainable washing and drying looks like.
Sustainable or high-quality?
Why “or”?
Sustainable or high-quality?
Why “or”?
BOSCH machines: Quality from start to finish.
With WeWash Care we equip your communal laundry rooms with modern, energy-efficient BOSCH appliances. Your advantages:
Exclusively manufactured for WeWash.
Low energy and water consumption.
Quiet operation.
Short program duration.
You want more? How about 48% more efficiency?
With our BOSCH dryers, that’s no problem. We’ve found out that our BOSCH branded appliances use 48% less energy than models from other manufacturers which are connected to the WeWash Box in our shared laundry rooms. This means that which each and every drying cycle, you save electricity, which equals around 340 g of CO2.3
Retrofitting in the interest of sustainability.
And for us, retrofitting means: no matter what machines you have in your laundry rooms, with our WeWash Box we can digitalise them.
The WeWash Box is compatible with all commonly used washing machines and dryers and can be fitted to the machines very easily in just a few minutes. Like this, you avoid unnecessary waste and electronic scrap.
Continue to use existing machines – in the interests of sustainability
We have also digitalised the existing washing machines and dryers at the campsites of a leading German camping operator Regenbogen AG. Patrick Voßhall, management member of Regenbogen AG is enthusiastic:
“It was really important to us to be able to introduce a solution which was compatible with our existing equipment which is what the WeWash system allows. The WeWash Box could be fitted to our existing machines very easily. That works regardless of the age or brand of the machines. That was ideal for us. It allowed us – in the interest of sustainability – to continue to use our own machines, not have to throw them away.”
It all revolves around the future:
The circular economy.
It all revolves around the future:
The circular economy.
Sustainable through and through – from start to start.
Circular… what? In the circular economy, existing materials and products are shared, leased, reused, repaired, refurbished and recycled for as long as possible. This extends their life cycle and reduces waste. After a product reaches the end of its life cycle, as much of the materials as possible stay in the economy in order to be used productively over and over again.
Or, in short, moving away from a one-way road…
… to a closed cycle.
Sustainable through and through – from start to start.
Circular… what? In the circular economy, existing materials and products are shared, leased, reused, repaired, refurbished and recycled for as long as possible. This extends their life cycle and reduces waste. After a product reaches the end of its life cycle, as much of the materials as possible stay in the economy in order to be used productively over and over again.
Or, in short, moving away from a one-way road…
… to a closed cycle.
Sustainable through and through – from start to start.
Circular… what? In the circular economy, existing materials and products are shared, leased, reused, repaired, refurbished and recycled for as long as possible. This extends their life cycle and reduces waste. After a product reaches the end of its life cycle, as much of the materials as possible stay in the economy in order to be used productively over and over again.
Circular economy – more concrete:
Our parent company BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, from which we source our washing machines and dryers, is in the process of transforming the classical linear economic model into a circular system:
- The appliances are characterized by a long lifetime.
- They have a minimum consumption of energy and water.
- Returned appliances are processed to a high standard for a possible new use.
Circular economy – more concrete:
Our parent company BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, from which we source our washing machines and dryers, is in the process of transforming the classical linear economic model into a circular system:
- The appliances are characterized by a long lifetime.
- They have a minimum consumption of energy and water.
- Returned appliances are processed to a high standard for a possible new use.
And this is where we come into play.
WeWash is an important part of this cycle, because environmental sustainability is in our DNA: We offer a shared using concept for washing machines and dryers which focuses on a resource-conserving use. In the future, we also plan on recycling – in the spirit of urban mining – or refurbishing spent appliances and then returning them to the cycle or sell them.
Our pilot project: The WeWash circular economy.
As part of first pilot projects, we took washing machines from WeWash Care shared laundry rooms, checked them, serviced them, refurbished them and returned them, after hygienic cleaning, to a second life cycle.
Currently we are working on turning those successful projects into a standardised process. Our goal is to return our machines to the product life cycle. Machines that are no longer suitable for resale are dismantled into individual parts and recycled in line with the concept of urban mining. That is sustainability all along the line.
1 Values are based on the LCA model of LCS Life Cycle Simulation GmbH, which analyses the environmental impact of products over their entire life cycle.
2 IKW “Zahlen zum Waschen” 2014.
3 Basis of calculation: Strommix Deutschland 2019: 401 g CO2/kWh https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/bilanz-2019-co2-emissionen-pro-kilowattstunde-strom
4 Average savings of liquid detergent when comparing automatic dosing technology with manual dosing, International Journal of Consumer Studies 38 (2014), 265 f.
5 Calculation based on a wash load in the 40 °C easy-care program with 38% manual overdosing of liquid detergent compared to an appliance with automatic dosing with a 10 kg load and 4D Wash System – according to study WL 1547/19 in 08/2019 by WFK Institut für angewandte Forschung GmbH, commissioned by BSH Hausgeräte GmbH.