Device to make washing machines lighter and greener could help truckers

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In one of those “why hasn’t this been done already?” moments, a team from Nottingham Trent University has come up with a device that could reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions for truckers. By their very design, washing machines require ballast – otherwise they tear up floors and walls during aggressive spin cycles. Until now, the typical means of providing ballast was a 25kg slab of concrete. The team from Nottingham found replacing this with a sealable plastic container, the ...