A recent TRSA Town Hall in Chicago examined priorities for mobilizing the industry on government advocacy issues and promoting the role of linen, uniform and facility services as employers. The discussion on May 16 offered executives from area companies an easily accessible, in-person forum to learn about TRSA’s latest actions on these issues and to exchange information on their efforts to deal with them.

Among high-priority advocacy concerns is anticipated regulation of the industry’s discharges to sewers of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics.

PFAS designates the broad class of 4,500 manufactured chemicals used to make cookware coating, carpets ...