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What enrages you most about dry cleaning?

11.17.2008

Submitted by tmeronek on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 1:29am.
The Bite:
From those damn hangers to toxins, there's a lot to choose from. Try avoiding Dry Clean Only labels and choose a greener cleaner to please your mommy dearest (y'know, Mother Earth).
The Benefits: 
  • Hanger-ing onto your health. The common dry cleaning chem perc is a probable carcinogen.
  • Going crazy eco-friendly. Classified as a groundwater contaminant by the EPA, 70% of perc used in dry cleaning ends up in nature - so opt for greener cleaners.
  • Clothes smell better - no weird science-lablike odor.
Personally Speaking: 
Jenifer's dry cleaner wasn't willing to keep track of her Reusenik bag, but agreed to not put her clothes in plastic and takes back wire hangers. She plans to ply them with sweets 'til they agree, but until then, her Reusenik's making use of itself as a sturdy garment bag when she travels.
Wanna Try: 
  • Opt for clothes that don't need dry cleaning, whenever possible.
  • If you gotta do it, most eco to least eco: 1. wet cleaning (water cleaning you can use with dry-clean-only apparel); 2. CO2 cleaning (sounds weird, but liquid carbon dioxide is relatively eco); 3. silicone-based cleaning (e.g., Green Earth dry cleaning, which uses a non-perc, silicone-based solvent that still causes cancer in rats).
  • Reusenik - using it = like bringing your own reusable grocery bag, but for your dry cleaning ($30). Or just ask your cleaner not to bag your clothes.
  • Autrepeau - form-fitting undergarments for ladies that protect duds from perspiration ($36-$44).
  • Earth 911 - if your cleaner won't take back your wire hangers, enter your zip to find out where to recycle wire hangers.

Cocktail Fact

Americans spend about $8 billion on dry cleaning every year.

Bang For The Bite

If 10,000 Biters green clean a suit, we'll avert the weight of 10 king-size mattresses in perc from washing into the environment.

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