Here’s a company jumping on the green bandwagon to shift their products in quite a convincing way. Servis claim their dishwashers are green because they use much less water than washing up by hand. According to them, washing dishes by hand uses 45 litres of water whilst an average dishwasher only uses between 12 and 16 litres per wash. Their Servis M4705 dishwasher uses an average 14 litres. The company also claims that another benefit of a machine is superior washing performance due to high temperatures used by dishwashers. Well, that claim jars with ecogeeks because that means heavy use on electricity – although admittedly you also have to heat the hot water to handwash too. This is especially if you have a hot water cylinder, which means that you often have to heat an entire tank just to do the dishes in the summer. The Servis does come with a rapid 30°C wash programme, which would certainly add green points to the machine argument. It’s a tough call to decide which is actually more eco friendly, but certainly gives a lot of food for thought. Let us know your opinion.
Servis M4705 Dishwasher - Energy rating: A, wash Performance: A, drying Efficiency: B and priced at around £249.
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who uses 45 litres of water to wash dishes?
and you don't even have to wash dishes with hot water.
what about the energy used to make it and then transport it to the shop to your house etc and then the energy needed to get rid of it, and the all that foul stuff you put into it every time you use it?