Commercial Wet Cleaning

Perchloroethylene (also known as perc or PCE) is the solvent used by the vast majority of the more than 5000 dry cleaners in California and the more than 30,000 dry cleaners operating throughout the United States. Increasing evidence of the toxic nature of PCE and the adverse health and environmental impacts of its use in dry cleaning began to emerge in the 1980s. This project is designed to jumpstart the diffusion of professional wet cleaning by developing a demonstration site grant program for the San Francisco Bay Area, designed to convert two dry cleaners to professional wet cleaning and to serve as demonstration sites for other dry cleaners in the region.

For more information, please contact the sponsoring organization.