The Green Garmento makes your drycleaner greener!

Working towards making small changes is the way to go green. One easy baby step is to stop accepting plastic dry cleaning bags. A simple thing like a reusable garment bag you use for your dirty laundry, drop off at the dry cleaners and get back as a protective hanging garment bag will not only make your life easier, but will help eliminate single use bags. Three hundred fifty million pounds of single-use plastic bags, most of which come from dry cleaners are dumped into landfills every year in the United States. Fifteen countries worldwide have banned or taxed single-use plastic bags.

By using The Green Garmento™, people will help reduce the negative impact of single-use plastic bags plus each Green Garmento is made from a most affordable fabric that's both durable and washable. Green Garmento's reusable dry cleaning bag is for dry cleaning, hospitality, military, municipalities, hospitals and consumers. Instead of wasting thousands of pounds of single use bags, two Green Garmento bags made from recyclable non-woven polypropylene can be used by a household for two to three years. The same material is used for the reusable grocery bags at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Ralph's, Stop & Shop and other grocery stores.

Green Garmento was founded by Jennie Nigrosh and Rick Seigel. Both came from  high level show business backgrounds. Nigrosh was on the long time creative marketing team of Warner Brothers Records. Siegel was a top Hollywood manager, producing and helping develop "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and naming among his managed clients, Craig Ferguson and Rondelle Sheridan.

According to Nigrosh, they felt compelled to leave the Hollywood fast track. "The dire need for this product is undeniable.  While reusable totes have begun to address the problem of single-use plastic grocery bags, there still wasn't a good alternative to the 300 million pounds of single-use plastic dry-cleaning bags generated annually in the U.S.,"Nigrosh said. "Even the legislative efforts to ban or tax single-use plastic bags have specifically exempted dry-cleaners again, because no good alternative exists. So instead of accepting the situation, we decided to try to do something about it." 

The dry cleaning industry is under pressures to become more eco-friendly. Switching from PERC to earth-friendly solvents is very expensive, however, switching from single-use to reusable garment bags is not. The Green Garmento™ allows dry cleaners to take a critical step in becoming environmentally friendly.

 
When you jump career tracks to work on something it has to be for love. Most eco-entrepreneurs have very specific favorite things about what they do. Nigrosh's favorite thing about working on The Green Garmento  is "introducing the bag and watching people start to smile as they figure out how such a simple thing can make a big ecological difference."

Green Garmento is ideal for anyone who dry cleans their clothes frequently as well as for dry-cleaners who want to become more eco-conscious.  The Green Garmento protects garments from dust and wrinkling while allowing the garments to breathe. Built-in gussets on each side of the bag allow room for each garment to avoid wrinkling. Small handles on each end of the bag allow it to hang easily on any hook or "arm" on a wall. The fabric is very thin and shouldn't take up much more space than a few rolls of plastic.

Nigrosh explains what Green Garmento does to benefit the rest of mankind. "Dry-cleaning bags, because of their size, are more harmful to the environment than the retail and grocery bags that so many people are working to eliminate," Nigrosh explained. "With every dry cleaner that makes the change from single use plastic to Green Garmento bags, thousands of pounds of dry-cleaning bags that would have been polluting our environment, won’t."

 For more info: www.thegreengarmento.com