LOWELL, Mass. — The Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) at the University of Massachusetts — Lowell awarded Best Neighborhood Cleaners of Medford, Mass., an $18,000 grant to help it discontinue the use of perchloroethylene and demonstrate wetcleaning technology to other drycleaners.
The grant helped fund the purchase and installation of wetcleaning equipment at the store, which had previously sent all garments off-site to be cleaned in a perc system.
