United States Office of Pollution, EPA-742-F-01-002 Environmental Protection Agency Prevention, and Toxics Summer 2001 0 Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse (PP1C) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW ( 7407) Washington, DC 20460 Reference and Referral Fax E-mail Address 202-260-1023 202-260-4659 ppic@epa.gov PREVENTION Summer 2001 NEW PUBLICATIONS Mail, phone, fax, or e-mail requests to the address and numbers above. EPA documents and fact sheets are provided at no cost based on availability. Please allow 3 weeks for delivery and limit your request to a total of 10 items. DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT General DfE INFORMATION EPA-744-F-01-003 Garment and Textile Program Fact Sheet: Military Uniform Cleaning Study • (2pp) June 2001 This fact sheet discusses the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Supply Center Philadelphia's (DSCP's) evaluation of environmentally-preferable technologies for the cleaning of military clothing and textile apparel. Results of the study will be used to support a DOD recommendation to place an instruction such as "Professional Fabricare " or "Professionally Clean " on the care label of selected military garments, allowing drycleaners to use environmentally-preferable processes instead of traditional drycleaning solvents. DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT CASE STUDIES EPA-744-F-01-004 Garment and Textile Care Program Case Study: 100% Wetcleaning Facility: Route-only Service (4pp) May 2001 This case study discusses how The Laundry Club (TLC), a Leesburg, Virginia-based partner of EPA's DfE Garment and Textile Care Program, cleans all garments that are normally drycleaned using automated, state-of-the-art wetcleaning techniques and skilled personnel. The study provides an overview of wetcleaning and wetcleaning agents used at TLC; performance information; environmental safety and health impacts; and capital and operational costs. Other DfE information available online at: http ://www.epa.gov/opptintr/dfe/index.html ------- |