Bellevue Dry Cleaners cleaning up the way they clean
Now cleaning with a hydrocarbon machine.
It takes a lot of chemicals to clean a lot of clothes fast at a professional laundromat. Locally Bellevue Dry Cleaners is making a change to a less harsh approach to cleaning your clothes.
“It’s a fairly new technology,” co-owner Stephanie Ahn said about buying a hydrocarbon solvent-based dry-cleaning machine.
“It’s good for people that work here and good for our customers. It does not require the use of potentially harmful dry-cleaning solvents.”
Before buying the hydrocarbon machine, she and her brother, Sae, had relied on a perchloroethylene-based machine, a commonly used solvent in the dry-cleaning business. That type of machine can cause health problems if the solvent’s exposure is not controlled properly.
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Richard Hayes
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If the business owner is reading, can we get more details on how hydrocarbons are better than perc? Google results seem to lump them together. I am definitely interested in a better dry cleaner for those few items I need it for, but I don’t understand the switch here.
When I lived in Charlottesville there was a carbon dioxide dry cleaner which is supposed to be much more environmentally friendly, but the business didn’t last. I guess it’s hard to do a good business in green dry cleaning since environmentally minded people probably own fewer dry-clean-only clothes.