Bye bye laundry, Lisa Marie Bengtsson

These clothes hangers by designer and recent graduate Lisa Marie Bengtsson use charcoal to soak up bad smells so clothes need washing less often (+ movie).

The Bye Bye Laundry clothes hangers are attached to a chamber of activated charcoal, a form of carbon that’s been processed with oxygen to be exceptionally porous and absorbent. Odours from hanging clothes are gradually absorbed by the clumps of charcoal through a filter in the base of the chamber.

“Sometimes we throw half-dirty clothes in the laundry basket because we don’t know where else to put them,” says Bengtsson, explaining that the deodorising hangers can reduce water consumption by refreshing clothes between washes.