TRSA Clean Green Innovation Award

The TRSA Clean Green Innovation Award recognizes companies or facilities that reduce their operations’ environmental impact in one or more ways, which may include reduction of per-laundry-pound use of a single resource (water, energy, chemistry), improved efficiency of a production or service function, or increased discharge control.

Ideas for Member Nominations | Previous Winners | Nomination Form

Use of best management practices described in the TRSA Clean Green standard is encouraged. Nominations document success through proven results.

Nominations for this and all 2023 Industry Awards (all except Lifetime and Years of Service) close Dec. 30, 2022.

Questions can be directed to awards@trsa.org.

Ideas for Operator Member Nominations
  • Consolidation of facilities
  • Energy conservation techniques
  • Healthcare laundry sustainability techniques
  • High-capacity trailers for textile inventory (consolidates routes)
  • Multi-decade history of environmental protection
  • Promotion of the industry’s sustainability
  • Renewable energy use
  • Wastewater discharge control
  • Water conservation techniques
Ideas for Supplier Partner Member Nominations
  • Achievements and projects (similar to those of Operators listed on the left) in Associates’ own facilities serving linen, uniform and facility services customers
  • Equipment, chemicals that reduce per-laundry-pound use of energy, water
  • New equipment of any type used in linen, uniform and facility services, more resource-efficient than previous models
  • Products/services provided to Operators to facilitate their achievements and projects described above
  • Textile products that replace disposable equivalents and launder efficiently

Previous Operator Member Winners

2022: Aramark Uniform Services, Burbank, CA
2022: Brady Linen/PureStar, Las Vegas, NV
2022: Cintas Corp., Cincinnati, OH
2022: Miller’s Textile Services, Wapakoneta, OH
2022: New System Laundry, Portland, OR
2022: Sitex Corp., Henderson, KY
2021: HLS Linen Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2021: Quintex Services, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2021: Textile Care Services, Rochester, MN
2020: Arrow Linen Supply Co., Inc., Garden City, NY
2020: CITY Laundering Co., Oelwein, IA
2020: Clean Green Sustainability, PureStar Group, Las Vegas, NV
2019: Prudential Overall Supply, Irvine, CA
2019: Mission Linen Supply, Santa Barbara, CA
2019: White Plains Linen, Peekskill, NY
2017: Huebsch Services, Eau Claire, WI
2015: Paris Cos., DuBois, PA
2014: AmeriPride Services, Minnetonka, MN
2012: Aramark-Wayne Memorial Hospital, Goldsboro, NC
2011: Roscoe Co., Chicago, IL
2011: California Linen Services, Pasadena, CA
2011: Aramark Uniform Services, Burbank, CA
2009: Aramark Uniform Services, Chicago, IL
2009: Capital Health Care Services, Troy, NY
2009: UniFirst Corp., Mesquite, TX

Pat Kneip and Christy Nageleisen, Cintas, one of six 2022 Clean Green laundry operator winners, with TRSA ‘s Joseph Ricci

Previous Supplier Partner Member Winners

2022: Ecolab Textile Care, St. Paul, MN
2022: Kemco Systems, Clearwater, FL
2021: Norchem Corp., Los Angeles, CA
2020: OMNI Solutions, Baraboo, WI
2019: Ecolab Textile Care, St. Paul, MN
2019: WSI, Cincinnati, OH

Russ Uhler, Ecolab Textile Care and John O’Hehir, Kemco Systems, 2022 Clean Green supplier partner award winners

Nomination Form

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