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Clean means green at new city store; TECHNOLOGY.


CLEAN now means green at the new Johnson's on Dale Street. The Merseyside-based firm, the UK's largest cleaning company with 500 branches across the UK, is investing up to pounds 6m to transform 150 branches to eco-friendly eco-friendly adjecológico

eco-friendly adjnon nuisible à or qui ne nuit pas à l'environnement

eco-friendly adj
 "GreenEarth" stores by 2012.

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, Lord Mayor of Liverpool Cllr Mike Storey CBE CBE Commander of the Order of the British Empire (a Brit. title)

CBE n abbr (= Companion of (the Order of) the British Empire) → título de nobleza

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, will officially re-launch Johnson Cleaners on Dale Street, as an eco-friendly "GreenEarth" cleaners, following a pounds 35,000 investment in the store.

Johnson Cleaners, with its head office at the King's Business Park in Prescot, has a long history in the region.

The company was established when the Johnson Brothers Johnson Brothers, originally a British tableware manufacturer and exporter, was noted for its early introduction of "semi-porcelain" tableware. Some of its designs, "Dawn", "Old Britain Castles" and "Historic America", achieved widespread popularity and are still collected today.  first set up a silk dying company on Ranley Street, Liverpool, in 1817.

Over its 192 years, Johnson Cleaners has developed its expertise. It now intends to lead the way in "greener cleaning" in the 21st century with GreenEarth.

It is available for the same price as traditional dry cleaning dry cleaning, process of cleaning fabrics without water. Special solvents and soaps are used so as not to harm fabrics and dyes that will not withstand the effects of ordinary soap and water. Dry cleaning began in France about the middle of the 19th cent.  but has no harmful waste products and is proven to be kinder to clothes, skin and the environment.

GreenEarth uses gentle liquid silicone silicone, polymer in which atoms of silicon and oxygen alternate in a chain; various organic radicals, such as the methyl group, CH3, are bound to the silicon atoms.  cleaning solvents which come from naturally occurring sand and is proven to give fabric a softer feel with no tell-tale dry cleaning smell.

The newly-refurbished Johnson Cleaners Dale Street branch will use the latest eco-friendly equipment for the first time.

Branch manager Dawn Doherty says: "It's fantastic we've been chosen to be an official 'GreenEarth' store. A lot of hard work has gone into refurbishing the branch and we've all received additional training on the benefits of using greener cleaning technology.

"We are honoured to have the Lord Mayor of Liverpool unveiling our new store. It's a great boost for us and reflects really well on the commitment of the team."

The Dale Street refurbishment re·fur·bish  
tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es
To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.



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 brings the total investment in GreenEarth store re-launches to pounds 105,000 in Merseyside alone this year. In April this year, two branches in Birkenhead and on Sefton Street Liverpool, also benefited from being transformed into GreenEarth stores, following a pounds 70,000 investment by the company.

Paul Ogle, managing director of Johnson Cleaners, says: "The introduction of GreenEarth technology to our Merseyside stores is part of a nationwide programme of transformation and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to investing in the future of the business.

"Our customers are demanding more environmentally-friendly products and services and, as the market leader and the largest cleaning company in the UK, we take our responsibilities seriously - to our staff, customers and the environment where we live and work."

The company is also working closely with the Carbon Trust on environmental initiatives designed to help reduce the company's carbon footprint A carbon footprint is the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted over the full life cycle of a product or service. , including branch energy reduction targets, bag for life laundry Laundry can be:
  • items of clothing and other textiles that require washing
  • the act of washing clothing and textiles
  • the room of a house in which this is done
History of laundry
Before industrialization
 carriers, and a paper free communications campaign.
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Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:Nov 10, 2009
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