Supreme Laundry Cleaners

As part of a cooperative effort between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the professional garment and textile care industry, the EPA Design for the Environment (DfE) Program recognizes the wetcleaning process (i.e., water-based cleaning systems) as one example of an environmentally-preferable technology that can effectively clean garments. Currently, most of the nation’s 34,000

SAN FRANCISCO — In what is becoming a growing trend, hundreds of dry-cleaners throughout the country have switched to new, environmentally friendly alternatives to the solvent now used to dry-clean clothes. So Consumer Reports put three of these new methods of dry-cleaning to the test. From mere appearances, there is no visible difference between cleaners using perchloroethylene