User:Brigidrose

Shared laundry room etiquette is the new and still evolving social science. Due to the ever increasing world population, more and more people are living in apartment buildings. Unfortunately, not every apartment comes equipped with its own washer and dryer, so in some instances an entire apartment building will share one laundry facility. Sharing any space with strangers can be hard, but sharing a laundry room is particularly difficult. What do you do if you really need clean clothes for work the next day, but someone has forgotten their clothes in the dryer?

Lakshmi Zang, a sociology professor at Concorida University in Montreal, was the first to propose a more specialized field of research regarding this issue. Her goal, she says, is to make more people aware of what their neighbors maybe thinking when it comes to what exactly is proper shared laundry room etiquette.