New Year鈥檚 Solutions, Radio 4, 2 January 2019

Complaint

This programme, offering 鈥渆veryday solutions to the climate crisis鈥 included the advice that putting denim jeans in the deep freeze would disinfect them while economising on the energy and water used in washing them.聽 A listener complained that this advice was misleading.


Outcome

The disinfectant effect of freezing on the microbes most likely to be found in jeans is slight, and the advice was misleading.


Further action

The programme was聽edited and replaced on聽大象传媒 Sounds and will not be rebroadcast in its original form.