Is PERC Putting a Stain to the Reputation of the Dry Cleaning Industry?
Unless you want to ruin a perfectly good, expensive suit which was stained by the cologne that your aunt or grandma wore during the holidays when you got a hug from her – it’s a good guess that you would occasionally require the services of a dry cleaning company. It’s the next best thing to keeping the pristine condition of the designer dress or Italian coat that you have. However, the dry cleaning industry’s reputation was seemingly smeared with the existence of PERC or Perchloroethylene. It’s a solvent used by almost 90% of the dry cleaning companies from around the world. Based from the data gathered by Greenpeace, a worldwide environmental organization, thousands of tons of solvent are used on an annual basis by the dry cleaning companies all across the US and Canada. So how did this seemingly typical dry cleaning chemical become a cause of alarm for environmentalists? The reasons are actually numerous. Aside from causing harm to Mother Nature, PERC is also a chemical which can pu
