Go Green with Company Uniforms

If you have made the decision to try and reduce your company’s carbon footprint, then you will

be happy to know that you can do it by extension as well when you use company uniforms. The

concept on its own is a great idea to encourage unity within the company, but there are a few

more elements that make this choice another stepping stone on your way to greener production.

Many companies use company uniforms to reduce any kind of conflict over the clothes that

people wear to work. They may not even realize that they are making a green choice as well.

Consider the math. If twenty people wear their own clothes to work and then they wash their

work clothes separately from their other clothes, that is at least 20, if not more than 20 loads of

laundry going at the same time. When you use uniforms and have them cleaned by the supplier

using industrial size machines that are built to conserve water, you have already made a

significant step towards energy conservation. Now take it one step further and get your

company uniforms from a place that is Clean Green certified.

Prudential happens to be a company that is Clean Green certified, and they earned every bit of

it. It is not easy to get this certification, but the impact it has on the environment is enormous.

Below are just a few of the requirements that companies must meet in order to be Clean Green

certified.

High capacity washers and dryers must use less water and less energy than traditional

methods.

Use reusable materials rather than disposable ones to reduce waste.

Process is not only certified at the international level, but also verified by a third party.

Remove solid and liquid waste from wastewater.

Reuse of not only drain water, but heat as well.

Preventative maintenance means less replacement of parts and machines.

Recycling outside of reusing water and materials.

Spill prevention methods are in place to reduce waste of water.

As you can see, using company uniforms from a place that is Clean Green certified can take

your efforts at reducing your carbon footprint to a whole new level. Often, people and

companies do not try to use green methods because they think that their impact on the

environment is so small that what they do to reduce it does not really have a significant impact

at all. This is false thinking since each small effort has its own impact and ripple effect. On top of

that, when your efforts combine with the efforts of another person or company, the impact is

multiplied.

By all means, companies should use work uniforms so that they can have a direct impact on the

environment and serve their company well at the same time. Yet, companies should also look

into the methods of their suppliers as well in order to get the maximum benefit for the

environment. Getting uniforms from a Clean Green certified company is an enormous step in

the right direction toward a more stable environment.

At Prudential Uniforms, we are a leading supplier of work uniforms for companies of all sizes.

We are a Clean Green certified company doing all that we can to help improve the environment

and reduce the amount of resources we use to clean and maintain company uniforms. Visit our

website at www.prudentialuniforms.com to learn more about the wide variety of services offered

by Prudential Uniforms.