Environmental Issues
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Sustainability:
Conserving Creatively
Operators discuss maximizing productivity while saving resources:‘ Economy and sustainability go hand in hand’
By Jack Morgan
Technology is facilitating significant progress for laundry operators on the environmental front— even as climate-change policies are getting less attention from the current U. S. administration and in some jurisdictions beyond.
But rather than backing off from“ going green” amid reduced regulatory pressure, several operators we spoke with are taking a proactive approach to conservation. They believe that saving water, fuel and cutting CO 2 emissions wherever possible are not only the right thing to do … they’ re a better way to run your business in the mid-2020s.
As for the policy front, Chris Welch, president of Prudential Overall Supply, an industrial / mixed / clean room operator, based in Irvine, CA,
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