Green Cleaners Council

Counting The Many Ways a Professional Cleaner Can Be GREEN

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Water Conservation

As one of our most precious natural resources, any and all water conservation efforts made by a drycleaner can have an enormous impact on our water supplies and ease the burden on our sewer infrastructures. The typical drycleaning machine demands a water flow rate of approximately 5 gallons a minute during the drying, cool down […]

REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE

Putting aside the obvious environmental challenges involved in reducing solvent consumption, energy usage and water conservation (all of which we address as separate ‘eco’ leaves), professional cleaners have innumerable environmental sustainability opportunities. Here is a fairly comprehensive list of the items that the Green Cleaners Council considers in awarding cleaners an ‘eco-leaf’ for reducing, reusing […]

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FAST FASHION

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CLEANING SOLVENTS (DRYSIDE AND WETSIDE)

Cleaning solvents are usually the linchpin of ‘green’ claims made by professional cleaners.  It is important for consumers to understand that drycleaning is the process of cleaning in a fluid that is not water.  These fluids are chemicals.  There is no such thing as chemical free cleaning.  Claims to the contrary are greenwashing. However, not […]

Water Conservation

As one of our most precious natural resources, any and all water conservation efforts made by a drycleaner can have an enormous impact on our water supplies and ease the burden on our sewer infrastructures. The typical drycleaning machine demands a water flow rate of approximately 5 gallons a minute during the drying, cool down […]