Greensleeves, The Green Dry Cleaner

   The New Breed of Dry Cleaner

       We, At Greensleeves, are not dry cleaners that have "turned green" to improve our business.   We came with a set of ideals and beliefs that are the foundation of our service.

Toxic processes, wasteful packaging and the lack of sustainability are cheap and ignorant.  Technology and awareness has brought us to a level of capability and understanding where we can provide far better, cleaner processing without the harmful, wasteful ways of careless greed.

While many dry cleaners have changed from using Perc to the less harmful Hydrocarbon, often called “organic" - to which we applaud their efforts, we built Greensleeves from the ground up to be a model of health awareness and environmental concern for the dry cleaning industry.  

Most dry cleaning plants are the bane of their neighborhood.  The odor carries for a distance, a smell that reveals the unnatural chemical orientation of the process.  And more plastic bags then a supermarket ten times as big.  

This simply does not have to be.  Technology and availability today have made it possible for the dry cleaning plant to operate in harmony with the environment, to not pose a threat to anyone’s health; to clean clothes cleaner than they were ever cleaned before. And not leave that enduring scar on the environment, plastics.

Greensleeves stands as proof!

The future is clean, fresh and natural.

Dry cleaning is done with GreenEarth.  Silicone based, discovered in a cosmetics plant where workers noticed the substance used in a number of skin cremes, shampoos and deodorants was getting their hands clean!  Developed into a cleaning solution, GreenEarth leaves no residue, is nontoxic, non-carcinogenic, and breaks down in the environment into  SiO₂ (sand); H₂O (water); CO₂(carbon dioxide).  It has been proven safe by over 200 independent studies and test and decades of the public using it in skin creams and other personal care items.

Wet cleaning uses water in precisely controlled conditions to clean "dry clean only" garments safely and effectively.  The results of wet cleaning or dry cleaning with GreenEarth are garments that are not faded or worn looking like ordinary dry cleaning leaves them.  There are no offensive odors and no scratchy, stiff feeling to fabrics.  

Packaging is done with biodegradable poly, plastic that breaks down into compostable materials - substances usable by nature in the ecosystem - in two years.  Recycle is a rule around Greensleeves, not an exception.  Materials are not only recycled whenever they can be but we use as much post-consumer material as is available.  

Pick up and Delivery is done with hybrid vehicles and the new Ford Transit Connect, the most fuel efficient delivery van ever on the market. 

Greensleeves is always looking for a better way and will continue to do so.  Our commitment to health and the environment is as strong as our commitment to quality.  Greensleeves will always be the example for other cleaners to aspire to. 

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 Geraldine Carpentiere  once faced down bull dozers to protect a doomed tree (that tree still stands today). She has set an example at the supermarket by bringing her own reusable bags for more than twenty years. These days the effort is finally catching on and reducing the more than 6 billion plastic bags generated by supermarkets nationwide.

Geraldine can often be found inspecting garments at the plant for perfection in pressing. The daughter of a clothing designer, she has the highest standards which she brings to Greensleeves. Geraldine is also a highly respected CPA and holds an executive position with one of the nation's largest accounting firms.

 

 

Thomas C. Davis Jr   was at the first Earth Day April 22, 1970 where they predicted that if something wasn't done right away, by the year 2000 the polar caps will have melted enough to raise the sea levels     to the eigth floor of the Empire State Building. Believing these extreme forcasts changed his life. While the predictions were far off the mark, Thomas still believes the environmennt is the most important issue  facing humankind today. More important than the economy or mid-east tensions, "None of it will matter    if we have no planet to live on." Thomas is also a vegetarian and a writer who maintains a personal blog "Wording Around" at thomasdavis.name and Living the Green Way at thegreenwayblog.com.