At the laundromat

Oh how I wish I had a washer and dryer of my very own. Laundry has always been my least favorite chore, and the fact that I have to do it in a crappy laundromat where half the machines are always broken doesn't help matters. Thank God for unsecured internet access.

But as I'm sitting here wasting away my day, a question comes to mind - what is best detergent to use, environmentally? I used one of those little single load boxes with the powder detergent. On the plus side, it's recyclable. On the minus side, it seems like a waste of packaging for one little scoop of powder. And who knows what kind of damage the powder itself might do? I'm thinking on the whole that powder is better than liquid because it is packaged in cardboard, not plastic. So I suppose i should be buying bulk-boxes of powder to cut down on packaging..... if only I had a place in my tiny apartment to store it.