How to Wash Shop Towels

Feb Blog 3 - Environmental Piece on the impact from recycling the oil stained products

Shop towels are used daily in a wide range of industries; they keep oil and liquid spills at bay and prevent employee injury. But what do you do when you’ve exhausted a towel’s use? Purchasing more inventory seems like the best solution, but it’s costly.

Mechanical Grease Removal From Shop Towels

Shop towel laundry services are a cost-effective solution for mechanical grease removal, eliminating the need to purchase new inventory. Whether you use white or red shop towels, trusting a professional recycling company to remove the excess oil and grease stains is an innovative way to reuse your shop towels, resulting in cost savings and a positive environmental impact.

Reusable Wipers and Mechanical Grease Removal

Another reusable solution for cleaning up oil leaks and spills is industrial wipers. 

Closed Loop Recycling provides low-lint wipers that absorb a variety of liquid waste from oil to coolants, giving you a quality alternative to disposable industrial wipers. Our reusable wipers are laundered for mechanical grease removal and are fully recycled for reuse with our innovative industrial laundering service. 

Our Minimal Liquid Discharge Process

CLR’s Minimal Liquid Discharge (MLD) laundering process is audited and approved by more than 700 manufacturing clients nationwide. Our process was even referred to as “elegant in its simplicity” by a former member of the EPA. Closed Loop’s MLD system process is environmentally friendly, giving us the flexibility to operate without a wastewater treatment permit or EPA ID. By cutting out permit restrictions, the onboarding process for our new customers is a breeze. Our MLD process is an excellent example of our third core value: Reinvent the Industry! 

Our team of recycling professionals spent years optimizing our MLD treatment process, guaranteeing that wastewater from our laundering services does not go down the drain. By ensuring that liquid waste doesn’t make its way down the drain, we eliminate any liability from our clients that a typical industrial launderer may carry. Our proprietary laundering process utilizes an environmentally friendly liquid detergent with no harmful VOCs, ensuring that residual, hazardous solvents do not end up in our reusable products. All fluids recovered from the absorbents are recycled and reused by an EPA-approved refinery. The state-of-the-art Minimal Liquid Discharge process is one of the leading factors that has contributed to our impressive growth. 

Benefits of Our Minimal Liquid Discharge Process

With the CLR MLD system, you get an innovative solution for recycling your water, cleaning your products, and eliminating your disposal costs.

Some benefits of using our MLD system include:

  • Reduced water dependence on supple source agency
  • Meeting a social/environmental responsibility
  • Almost 98% good water recovery
  • Self-sustainable water usage industry
  • Eliminating regulatory disposal norms and pollution discharge concerns 

Oil Stain Removal For Personal Protective Equipment

CLR also conducts the oil stain removal process for personal protective equipment (PPE). PPE, such as gloves, aprons, and vests, is equipment that’s used daily in a variety of industries to protect employees from industry-related hazards. 

You can keep your PPE stain-free and in quality condition with our PPE laundering program, eliminating the need to purchase new inventory for your staff. 

CLR’s seven-step process to PPE laundering and oil stain removal saves you money and helps the environment:

  1. Weigh: Your PPE is weighed, resulting in accurate calculation of the waste diversion for reporting purposes. 
  2. Sort: We separate and sort your PPE by type.
  3. Clean: Each PPE is cleaned by the recommended care instructions.
  4. Metal Detect: PPE is inspected and analyzed through our state-of-the-art metal detector.
  5. Quality Check: Each PPE is visually inspected for quality assurance and control issues, such as tears and burns. 
  6. Bundle: PPE is then paired with similar items, repackaged, and returned to you. 
  7. Report: We send you a PPE Processing Report, so you know exactly what was laundered and what was scrapped. 

Take The Hassle Out of Oil Stain Removal With CLR

We provide oil stain removal solutions for a variety of industries, such as aerospace, automotive, packaging, and metal stamping. We’re the recycling experts, regardless of what industry you’re in. Our team is dedicated to offering best-practice solutions for mechanical grease removal, cleaning a variety of PPE and reusable absorbents, including shop towels. 

When you choose us, you’re partnering with a company that believes in the benefits and impact of recycling just as much as you do.CLR is here for a purpose, and that purpose results in endless benefits, such as cost savings, clean products, and a better world to live in. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you with mechanical grease removal.