Cumberland Valley Rental is involved in voluntary environmental reporting that helps the government better understand our industry and also helps us become more environmentally efficient and sound.
What does this mean, What are the goals?
What are the program's specific environmental and conservation goals?
LaundryESP sets the following industry-wide resource conservation and pollutant reduction goals, to be achieved by 2002, based on a 1997 baseline.
- A 10-25% reduction in the gallons of water used per pound of textiles laundered
(2.84 to 7.1 billion gals./yr.).
- A 10-25% reduction in energy consumption per pound of textiles laundered
(3.13 to 7.82 billion BTUs/yr.).
- A 10-25% substitution of environmentally beneficial washroom chemical formulations.
- A significant reduction in pollutant equivalents discharged to sewers
(20,000 lb. pollutant equivalents/yr.).
Taken from Laundry ESP Website
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