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Cleaning technology No. 6 |
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Wet Cleaning |
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Due to the environmental regulations concerning dry cleaning solvents, a trend towards the promotion of water based cleaning, or wet cleaning, has begun to accelerate, as has the move towards the introduction
of the products of companies like Electrolux as commercial cleaning models.
A word search of documents in Chemical Abstract, the world's largest database for chemistry and a division of the American Chemical Society, using a logical operation called a proximity operator
yields 395 results.
However, only three of these were related to apparel. To be sure, for some time some business interests have been making efforts regarding the need for a transition from cleaning with chlorofluorocarbon
solvents to water-based cleaning.
Businesses involved in some parts of the electronics industry, like semi-conductors, are leaders in the field. Perhaps it is because of this that the transition from dry cleaning to water-based cleaning
is called wet cleaning, thus distinguishing it from the movement towards water-based cleaning in electronics. However, it must be remembered that in relation to the field of electronics, those involved
are a collection of small businesses on a very different scale.
Justice should be done for small cleaning firms, and there is probably also a need to compare the fuel consumption of automobiles with the consumption of cleaning solvent.
(T.T.)
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