The solvent used by most dry cleaners is a toxin that’s truly earned the label: The Environmental Protection Agency recently deemed perchloroethylene, or perc, a likely carcinogen when inhaled, making ...

For years, the dry cleaning business kept a dirty little secret. In the coming years, one of the most common chemicals used in dry cleaning — perchloroethylene, or “perc” — will be outlawed in many ...

Although some greener alternatives exist, most dry cleaners still use perchloroethylene (“perc” for short), a petroleum-based solvent that can be hazardous to the human central nervous system, with ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Until Tuesday, I was fairly ignorant of the particular hazards of dry cleaning. Until ...

When Song Shin bought Faulkenbury & Wright dry cleaners on the lip of downtown Seattle last year, he had an important financial decision to make: Buy a new dry-cleaning machine — one that used an ...

The Guldjian family didn’t have a lot of money when they came to the United States from Syria in 1981, so mother Lucy Guldjian opened a small tailoring shop at Sixth and Main streets in Huntington ...

Tide Dry Cleaners, an eco-friendly dry cleaning service, opened it doors to the Ahwatukee community on Feb. 21. The Ahwatukee location is just the second of five Tide Dry Cleaners that Panda Dry ...

The Greener Dry Cleaner has opened its latest location — and flagship shop — in North White Plains. It offers environmentally friendly dry cleaning for a variety of clothes and household items, as ...