drying laundry – State Senator Mike Barrett

Dry your tee? Senate brings back the old way

August 2, 2016April 17, 2023senmikeb

Press Release

To promote energy conservation, the State Senate has taken the surprising step of legally reaffirming residents’ rights to a traditional but increasingly threatened practice — the option of hanging laundry out to dry on a clothesline.

State Senator Mike Barrett, chief sponsor of the policy change, says clothesline use is often barred by condo and homeowner associations. Environmentally speaking, he says, that’s unfortunate.

Barrett backs “right to dry”

July 9, 2015April 17, 2023senmikeb

State Senator Mike Barrett, D-Lexington, is supporting a new “right to dry” for Massachusetts residents. His bill would extend the right to hang laundry on clotheslines to all state residents.

Barrett introduced the legislation at the initiative of environmental activist Peggy Brace, a constituent from Concord. He recently testified in favor of the idea at a public hearing at the State House.