An Automated Car Wash Has a Green or Environmental Advantage Over Hand Washing Your Car

Two Reasons That an Automated Car Wash Is Better for the Environment, or More 'Green,' Than Hand Washing a Car:

1. Most people will at some point have a hose with the water running in one hand and a sponge in the other. This might be more convenient and maybe a little more effective but it wastes a lot of water. Estimates vary; but stating that the average person hand washing their car will use 80 gallons of water is a pretty good standard to go by. The more modern automated car washes, by comparison only use about 50 gallons.
2. When you hand wash your car in your drive way the water runs down the driveway into the street and normally into a sewer storm drain which is normally designed to handle rain water and ends up dumping it into a natural body of water. The problem with this is all the chemical and bio-degradable compounds that water takes with it polluting any other source of water it is dumped into. The water in the automated car wash is sent through a water treatment system before being released into the environment..

While the old fashion way of hand washing your car might have a little more prestige; don't dismiss all automation as being bad for the environment and destroying the world.