The vision of a cleaner, more environmentally friendly textile services industry recently took a major step forward with the formal launch on Jan. 30 of TRSA’s Clean Green certification program.
 
Industry leaders developed Clean Green with the idea of establishing widely accepted measures of environmental quality for textile services plants. Details of the new program and its requirements are available online at https://www.trsa.org/page/clean-green.
 
To achieve certification, companies must demonstrate responsible leadership in sustainability and conservation by achieving efficiencies in water and energy conservation and adopting best management practices (BMPs) for reusing, reclaiming and recycling ...