CHOOSE THE RIGHT WIPER! Did You Know Rental Shop Towels Can Pose Certain Risks?
CHOOSE THE RIGHT WIPER!
Did You Know Rental Shop Towels Can Pose Certain Risks?
Residual Oils, Grease and Often Heavy Metals.2
Contamination or Damage of Wiping
Surfaces.2
Confusing Pricing Practices...Often
Meaning Higher Costs.
Potential for Lead Present at
Concentrations Resulting in Daily Exposure Levels
Higher than Regulated Under
Prop 65.2
Risk in Rental Shop Towels
INDUSTRIAL WASHER 2000
The Risk on Water Resources
The U.S. EPA says industrial laundries discharge more than 13 million pounds of hazardous contaminants into the public water treatment system every year.1
The Risk on Water Resources
INDUSTRIAL WASHER 2000
25% of public sewage treatment plants report their facilities are clogged and damaged by sludge.1
The contaminants include lead, toluene, xylene, zinc, and other heavy metals known to cause cancer or kill aquatic life.1
INDUSTRIAL WASHER 2000
The Risk on Water Resources
Residual oils, greases and heavy metals can endanger employee health.2
OUCH!
Metal shavings from lathing operations can injure faces and hands, resulting in lost work time.2
With workers that use 2.5 rental shop towels a day, toxic metals and lead can accidentally be ingested when transferred from the rental shop towel to workers hands.3
Threats to Workplace Safety
Residual oils and chemicals can reduce absorption, cause streaks and smears,and inhibit adhesion of parts and interfere with electrical connections.
Lack of Efficiency
Loose threads and lint can get caught in machinery and snag on edges andprotrusions. Residues in towels used to clean walls before painting can affect the paint finish.
Lack of Efficiency
Shop towels laying around can create a messy work environment. Additionally, having to grab new towels from a faraway bin can add lost hours over the course of a year.
NEW TOWEL BIN
FLA
X 70
029
609
FLA
X 90
029
608
FLA
X 50
029
610
Lack of Efficiency
Many launderers generally add a 10% Replacement Charge and a 15% Environmental Charge to help cover their waste management costs.
Additionally, many launderers charge you for an inventory level versus your actual usage, making you pay for towels you don’t even use!
INVOICERENTAL TOWEL
Uncounted Usage Charge
Replacement Charge
Environmental ChargeInventory Charge
The Hidden Fees
Even if they do charge you for actual usage, it’s based on weight, and used towels weigh more.
INVOICERENTAL TOWEL
Uncounted Usage Charge
Replacement Charge
Environmental ChargeInventory Charge
Costs could be 42%higher than expected!
The Hidden Fees
Is There Something Better?
ENOUGH!
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Citations - 1 - “Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Pretreatment Standards for the Industrial Laundries Point Source Category;
Proposed Rule”, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Register, December 17, 1997.2 - “Environment Assessment of Shop Towel Usage in the Automotive and Printing Industries”, Lockheed Martin Environmental Services.
3 - California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) Proposition 65 limits are exposure limits based on potential health risks such as cancer or reproductive effects. If a chemical exposure exceeds the limit, manufacturers may be required to
notify the public of this exceedance.
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