Reducing CO2

drygreen strives to decrease the carbon dioxide footprint of the business and utlimately the aim is to make our operations totally carbon neutral . As far as currently possible we utilise 100% green energy in our operations and distribution. In 2011 we expect to be audited and certified as carbon neutral.

Recycling Metal

After much research on the matter drygreen continues to use metal coathangers. The energy and environmental production costs of alternative paper/cardboard/hybrid hangers do not come close to the existent recycling benefits of the traditional metal hanger.

We gladly accept the return of your hangers as we can reuse them many, many times over. A special thankyou to our customers who happily drop them back to drygreen. You are growing in numbers and together we can do still more.

Artists also appreciate the metal coathanger and many community recycling centres such as Reverse Garbage are happy to accept them.

The history of the coathanger (external link – opens in a new page)

How metal coathangers are made (video – external link – opens in a new page)

Some of the many fun and innovative alternative uses for the metal coathanger:

DIY Halloween fairy wings

Why Spend A Fortune
DIY Coathanger HDTV antenna!

Coathanger crafts

Magic Tricks!
Coin on a coathanger

You’re in Car Trouble
How to unlock a car door with a coathanger

How to write ‘coathanger’ in Chinese

The X350 Coathanger Hanger
Tired of dangerous coathangers? Try this new fantastic product, the X350

Sally Brown – coathanger sculpture

Amuse the Kids and Learn Something Scientific!
Going loopy for bubbles

When Your Stuck With An Egg & A Coathanger
Cooking eggs – without a frypan

Now That Is Useful
DIY How to charge an iPod using a pumpkin and a coathanger

Hours Of Mindless…
Coathanger finger engine

Get Out Of Trouble the MacGyver Way!
MacGyver breaks out of a room with a chair and a coathanger

If you have a favourite alternative use; drop us a line about it and we will include it here!

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Recycling Paper

All printed products used and supplied by drygreen are produced on 100% PCW (Post Consumer Waste). We do use recycled paper flyers in our promotions though far less as we move towards online media. Check out our Facebook and Twitter pages where we regularly display our current offers.

We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Recycling Water

As a drycleaner water is one of our essential ingredients. We use it to wash garments in the latest Miele commercial water-saving machines. We use it to generate steam for our presses, stain removal processing and the new Firbimatic GreenEarth drycleaning machine. Waste steam is recycled in a closed sytem and wash water is filtered, with any contaminants removed before it is returned to the environment.

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Our Packaging

drygreen uses environmentally sound packaging materials for our customers finished garments.

We will soon be introducing a semi transparent cornstarch bag for many of our cutomers to protect their garments from rain and dust in transit. The bag will be completely recyclable in your garden compost or can be deposited in your green waste bin. The cornstarch material requires the action of soil bacteria to break down.

drygreen is proud to offer a non woven EcoBag for $7 which can be reused many times both as a laundry bag at home, as a clothes hanger and for garment protection from dust and rain in transit.

Ecobag used as a clothes carrier

Ecobag used as a laundry bag

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Our Waste

The GreenEarth silicone solvents is filtered through a clay media which collects fluff and dist. This waste is nontoxix and nonhazardous andwhen bagged can be disposed of in the normal garbage. Any remnant silicone degrades quickly to silica (sand) with trace amounts of water and CO2.

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