Green Earth Waterless Car Wash
October 01 2007
Currently over 32 states are in drought in the United States—including California and Nevada, which have just recorded their driest June-to-May periods since 1924. Global warming, anyone? But as rising temperatures cramp water supplies, demand continues to rise in tandem. As Donald Wilhite of the National Drought Mitigation Center put it: “We think of water as an unlimited resource…But what happens when you turn on the tap and it’s not there?”
Commercial carwashes use an enormous amount of electricity and water—between 20 and 45 gallons. Washing your car at home is worse, racking up 80 to 140 gallons. Add to that the copius amounts of chemicals in the washes themselves (like VOCs, which vaporize into the environment, damaging soil and groundwater and contributing to air pollution) and you have a serious problem.
Enter the solution: Green Earth Waterless Car Wash, which is so brilliantly conceptualized, realized and marketed it elicits one of those slap-on-the-forehead “Why didn’t I think of that?” reactions.
Created by a husband-and-wife team whose daughter developed terrible allergies to commercial cleaning products (and you wonder why your kid gets a runny nose after you spray on that “new car smell”), Green Earth didn’t just stop at creating a chem-free car wash. Oh no, they went the extra mile and made it waterless too. And they donate to Heal the Bay, which works tirelessly to clean up Southern California’s coastal water.
It’s environmentally safe, biodegradable, VOC free, dye free, fragrance free and paraben free. It encapsulates the chemical dirt in and on your car, making it inert as it whisks it away. If you’re in SoCal, Green Earth will come to you—nationally, you can DIY with a bottle of their handy-dandy cleaning solution and some elbow grease.
