The inaugural Daily Telegraph Responsible Fashion Forum took place on June 18th 2019. It attracted many brands, many suppliers and a great array of speakers. The conversations taking place could be summed up in three words, "Forward Thinking Fashion." The purpose of GreenEarth attending, was to...
Led by Loughborough Students’ Union (LSU) Enterprise Section, Loughborough University is supporting the launch of a new sustainable clothing initiative, Suitably Dressed. The project aims to support students who may not have the funds to purchase a new outfit for a work interview or formal event. The scheme...
AATCC has won yet another Tabbie award for an in-depth feature article, published in the January/February 2018 issue of AATCC Review, written by feature writer Craig Crawford. Crawford chairs and presents at numerous fashion and retail tech events, where he connects global industry leaders and technology...
How Well Do You Know Jim Douglas? Story by Cleaner and Launderer I have been wanting to write about Jim Douglas for quite some time. Jim is known as co-founder of GreenEarth Cleaning and also co-founder of Prestige Cleaners, Sacramento. But what else do I know about Jim? I...
Up until last month, I’d spent close to two years at GreenEarth learning about the Clean Show and how it’s an opportunity to both meet fresh faces in the industry as well as reconnect with our Network. After all, in our founding year of 1999,...
The Plastic Soup Foundation has been at the center of efforts to stop the plastic pollution of our oceans. Efforts to remove macro-plastic waste have begun and are highly visible. However, millions of microplastic fibers are released into the world's wastewater treatment systems when garments containing...
HANOVER, Mass. — Lapels Dry Cleaning, An innovative, environmentally-friendly drycleaning company, has opened a full-service, dry cleaning satellite store at 5025 Church Rd., Suite 105, in Olive Branch, Miss., it notes. Olive Branch is a town of about 30,000 residents located south of Memphis just over the Tennessee...
With less than three weeks under my belt as part of the GreenEarth Team, I stepped foot onto the Clean Show floor for the first time bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. And man, I have to be honest, I was blown away. Let’s just say, that is...
Did You Know: President Ford Was Sworn In Wearing a Suit Cleaned by Presto Valet? The dry cleaner has been removing spots in Alexandria for 68 years! By James Cullum ALEXANDRIA, VA- In the middle of the night on August 8, 1974, Buddy Gritz got a call from...
When I graduated in the 1990s, I never thought I’d have been working in the dry cleaning industry for nearly 15 years. And those years have been really interesting, full of so many journeys, both literally and figuratively. My GreenEarth journey started with Johnson Cleaners, the...