through environmental stewardship and resource conservation.

Our Environmental Impact Statement

Our goal is to reduce the direct and indirect impact of our company through leadership by example, reuse of textiles, and conservation of resources. In setting and achieving these goals, Dempsey has emerged as a leader in both the textile rental industry and our local community. Download our Environmental Impact Brochure below.


Three ways we reduce our impact on the environment…

Dempsey was the First U.S. Company Certified TRSA Clean Green?

In February 2012, the Textile Rental Services Association (TRSA) designated Dempsey Uniform & Linen Supply as the first company in the United States to achieve certification in the TRSA Clean Green? Certification Program. Clean Green? Certification recognizes companies that demonstrate responsible leadership in sustainability and conservation to protect the environment. Key criteria of the program are aligned with ASTM International Standard D7841-13, Sustainable Laundry Best Management Practices. The program acknowledges a textile service company’s continuing commitment to improving efficiencies in water and energy conservation and adoption of best management practices for reusing, reclaiming and recycling resources.

Clean Green Certified

Textile Reuse Reduces Solid Waste.

  1. Paper Towels generate 4x more solid waste than Cloth Towels. (IL 12/91)
  2. Wet Mop: 1 Rental = 36 Disposable; Dry Mop: 1 rental = 186 disposable (TRSA Green Taskforce 2009)
  3. Paper Exam Gowns generate almost 4x more solid waste than cloth. (IL 12/91) If one doctor gowns 20 patients per day for 1 year, it generates .5 ton of garbage. (TRSA Green Taskforce 2009)
  4. Disposable Mats generate 9x more landfill waste than Rental Mats. 1 rental = 10 Disposable Mats. (TRSA Green Taskforce 2009)
  5. Paper Wipers generate from 4x to 10x more solid waste than Cloth Shop Towels (depending on the soil level). (IL 12/91)
  6. The EPA recommends restaurants utilize “reusable utensils, dinnerware, napkins and placemats” as a key tactic for Source Reduction. (*Decision-maker’s Guide to Solid Waste Mgt, Vol. II” University of Wisconsin & EPA, 1995)

Dempsey’s Efficient Laundering Conserves Natural Resources

Our laundering process leads the commercial laundry industry in conservation methods and technology. Dempsey’s industrial laundry process, which includes equipment like the PowerDry II and the PowerTrans, is much better for the environment than washing and drying items in smaller loads at home, or at an unregulated business site where untreated wastewater is discharged through the local sanitary sewer system. A very specific study looked at the home laundering of uniforms. Home laundering of uniforms uses 2.8x more water and 2x more energy than industrial laundering. (IL 12/91) If 50% of the 22 million uniform wearers in the U.S. had their uniforms laundered commercially (it’s now 33%), almost 100 million gallons of water would be saved each week. Over a year, almost 5 billion gallons would be saved.

Dempseys Efficient Laundering

Dempsey Uniform is a highly respected industry leader.

Dempsey respected by industry leaders
Dempsey Respected By Industry Leaders