This fall, college students can avoid doing laundry without making a trip home.

Boston-based startup Beantown Bedding is offering a line of “laundry-free linens” that are meant to be thrown away after just a few weeks. The sheets, available in twin extra-long size for those oddly shaped dorm room beds, are biodegradable and compostable.

Cofounders Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple got the idea for throw-away bedding when they sent their children off to college and learned they rarely took the time to wash their sheets.

Beds are like super-sized petri dishes for fungi, bacteria, pollen, soil, dust, and all sorts of detritus read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com