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News Release from: Hydro-Dynamic Products | Subject: Printing wipes laundry service
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2008
First UK Laundry Service For Soiled
Printing Wipes
The first laundry service, which is estimated to collect and clean 1.5 million soiled wipes a year has been launched by Hydro-Dynamic Products in the UK.
The West Sussex company plans to combine a laundry bag collection-and-return service with its routine delivery of products to customers' premises Hydro-Dynamic said that it already has pre-orders for 30,000 wipes
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 7 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hydro-Dynamic Products (HDP) which also operates a waste collection and recycling scheme, said collected soiled wipes, which are classed as hazardous waste, will be laundered in a process designed specifically for them.
They will go through a five-wash cycle, the first four using recycled water, comprising a pre-wash, chemical wash and three rinses.
The average wipe can be laundered five times before being neutralised prior to going to landfill.
Alan Collins, HDP's director of waste management services, said: "We believe we're the first consumables supplier to offer this service and it means we're making the most of our national distribution facility as a benefit to the environment.
It's a natural extension to the range of help we provide to customers wanting to 'green' their supply chain and that are increasingly concerned about their carbon footprints." He explained that collecting and cleaning soiled wipes has traditionally been undertaken by specialist cleaning companies, which might travel hundreds of miles to pick them up and then transport them overseas for laundering.
And Collins added: "By combining a UK-based laundry service with product drops, we can substantially reduce this transportation and its carbon emissions, with all its consequences to the environment.".
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