Energy Labeling for Consumer Items

Was just reading the papers today and came across this article: All Washing Machines must now be labelled – Feng Zengkun, Straits Times 28th September 2011 I’m pretty sure that many people have no idea how much water your washing machine is draining every wash and how much more water efficient a three-tick washing machine can be in comparison to a zero/one-tick washing machine. Looking around, here are the statistics drawn from this page :   Putting the numbers into comparison: LG 3-tick Washing Machine (WD-12320RD) consumes 7.60 litres of water / kg of load while Tecno...