High-End, New York-Based Cleaner Among First in Nation to Use Biodegradable Plastic Garment Covers

As allotment of its advancing charge to 'greener' practices, Embassy Cleaners has switched to biodegradable and recyclable polyethylene bags, potentially extenuative over 20,000 pounds of artificial from landfills anniversary year.

Larchmont, NY -- High-end dry cleaner Embassy Cleaners, based in Westchester County, New York, is the aboriginal dry cleaner in the New York city across to admit the packaging of its accomplished apparel application biodegradable plastic. Furthermore, it will be one of the aboriginal cleaners to do so nationally.

"This marks the a lot of abundant and allusive accomplishment in our abiding charge to ecology responsibility," said Andrew Rivkin, buyer of Embassy Cleaners.

This marks the a lot of abundant and allusive accomplishment in our abiding charge to ecology responsibility We saw some plastics that were photodegradable, that is by way of sunlight, but they abort to abase if placed in landfills A abundant accord of our business involves driving. We try to save as abundant gas as possible. We're even analytic into converting our accumulation trucks to active on vegetable oil. We chose to cast them the blush green. The plastic, clashing added prototypes in the market, can breach down in environments area bacilli are breath such as landfills, admixture accessories (commercial and home) and accustomed bodies of water. "We saw some plastics that were photodegradable, that is by way of sunlight, but they abort to abase if placed in landfills," explained Rivkin. For us, that was the accomplished point." A individual dry cleaner can add over 20,000 pounds of artificial per year to U.S. landfills.

This new technology of plastic, created by the close Earth Bound, agency to amalgamate the anatomic strengths of artificial with the abasement action of amoebic material. The adjustment by which this was accomplished was a aggregate of amoebic & asleep abstracts which accept been alloyed in a actual absolute conception and admixture into a reactor-grade accumulation pellet. When this pellet is circuitous with any polyethylene or polypropylene resin, the consistent artificial is biodegradable.

The biodegradation of advised artificial occurs through aerobic and anaerobic pathways. Microorganisms absorb the plastic, assimilating the actual for cellular processes and bearing a admixture of metabolic products, such as methane, carbon dioxide, and water.

The accretion technology activated with these polyethylene films accredit the microorganisms in the ambiance to metabolize the atomic anatomy of the blur into a anatomy that is controllable to the environment. When accumulated with calefaction and moisture, the abscess abettor modifies the blur anatomy and attracts microorganisms that metabolize and abrogate the plastic. Depending on auctioning conditions, the completed action can crop abode in as little as nine months.

Rivkin addendum that this is the alpha of a company-wide trend against greener policies. Aside from application degradable polyethylene as apparel bags, Embassy Cleaners accomplished a maximum-efficiency activity program, including energy-efficient beef traps, lighting and a autonomous engine-interruption action a allotment of its avenue drivers. "A abundant accord of our business involves driving. We try to save as abundant gas as possible. We're even analytic into converting our accumulation trucks to active on vegetable oil."

The new polyethylene films are, as an added feature, recyclable, and accessible in assorted tints. Said Rivkin: "We chose to cast them the blush green."

For added advice on Embassy Cleaners and its ecology policies, acquaintance Michael D'Elicio or appointment www.embassycleaners.com .