The presumptive Cocoa Beach-attack happened just one day after a 13-year-old boy was bitten by a shark at Floridaâs Neptune Beach, just east of Jacksonville. Just one week prior, another child, an 11-year-old girl, was also bitten by a shark in Jacksonville.
1. wash dark clothes separately. Dark clothes always get the separate treatment in cold water (60 to 80 degrees F) to preserve its original colors and prevent bleeding onto lighter clothes.
So, switch to washing in cold water â it gets clothes just as clean as hot water, while using less energy and money. Energy Star states that almost 90% of the energy consumed by a washing machine goes to heating water. Switching from hot or warm water to cold water washing saves that energy. In fact, each household that makes the switch to cold-water washing eliminates about 1,600 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year, according to the Sierra Club.