Environmental Groups want to get between You and your Dry Cleaner

Environmental groups are pushing the Federal Trade Commission to do away with dry clean only labels. 

Dry cleaners, the groups say, often use cleaning chemicals that are harmful to the environment and can pose health risks to workers and consumers.

They say labeling rules should be changed so that consumers are told their garments can also be cleaned by more green-friendly “wet cleaning.” Professional wet cleaners, the green groups say, can safely wash most garments that would ordinarily be sent to a dry cleaners — such as cottons, wools, silks, leathers and suedes — without emitting the same levels of air pollution or contaminating the water. 

“This suggests that the vast majority of garments currently labeled 'dry clean' or 'dry clean only' could be labeled with a wet cleaning instruction,” the Coalition for Clean Air wrote in comments it filed with the FTC.

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