To add to the list of local “green” enthusiasts, Charlottesville now has “green” dry cleaning company, Eco Dry Cleaners. I would normally support something like this, except they aren’t acting so green. The downtown mall area it seems is the site of one of their initial marketing campaigns where they place a flyer on the windshield of every car within a 20 mile radius. Normally I wouldn’t care…but these guys are supposed to be eco-friendly and green right? How is printing on non-recyclable glossy stock and leaving it on people’s cars where it will most likely be thrown away eco-friendly?
From their website, they claim:
While I can appreciate their vision of capitalizing on our interests of living in a cleaner world, they have clearly botched their first step. The Department of Energy says glossy paper cannot be recycled due to the high amounts of clay and adhesives used. You be the judge.
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Tagged as: 434 244 3791, 801 West Main Street, Charlottesville, environmentally friendly, fraud, grand opening, polluter
They’re having a ribbon cutting with te vice mayor tomorrow from 5-6. Anyone intrested? Anyone?
/didn’t think so
buh buh buh buh BLUNDER
DEE dee dee!
Why would I go when all the TV station live trucks will cover it like an orphanage fire?
It will be a top 3 story for sure with the Mayor it would have been #1
It would be funny to show up at the grand opening with bags full of their flyer-trash from around town and just dump it on their store front. Shocking. Quite.
@4 I’m still banking on their leading with story # 5,245 on the Meadocreek Parkway, tonight. And Friday night. And a week from next Tuesday. Unless the cops hit another pedestrian. Then, all bets are off.
@ 6 I would read those but Im still reading about 20 year old crime #645 in the hook.
thought it was Uncus?
You talkin’ to me?
I’m sick of all this “green” shit. So much of it is little more than money-making scam to take advantage of America’s affluent, whom, despite their supposed education, are still kind of dumb.
I forgot to thank Vanillavy for pointing out what is clearly an environmental shtick in town.
I’m sick of all this “green” shit
Then stop eating so much spinach.
so who wants to go to the grand opening!?!??!?!
@7 lol b’yo, sooooooo true
Hey Guys- I am an advocate of anyone pushing the green initiative. A flyer on glossy paper does not mean that whomever is providing the service is not doing us some justice. Flossy flyers are not recyclable but once you receive the flyer it is up to you how it is used. Use the flyer as a bookmark. I read a lot of books and use these types of flyers as bookmarks. Why are we so judgmental? We all need to make changes. Read a book.
I think it’s more the irony of it.
So if I dump trash on your lawn, I can wipe my hands clean and it becomes your responsibility to clean it up? Your logic is flawed.
By no means Vanillavy. That is not what I am saying. I believe that we are exaggerating just a bit. You said flyers were all over the place throughout a 20 mile radius, but the City of Charlottesville is only 10 miles or so. I just think whomever is working with that cleaners is doing some good. I do not have a bunch of clothes that need dry cleaning but I will take my sweaters to them. Would prefer to take it to a local dry cleaners that uses anything other than those harmful chemicals. Where do you dry clean? If you have a better alternative because they placed a flyer on your car then please let me know. You seem to be a fairly intelligent guy.
What if my dog pees on the downtown mall? Who cleans that up?
All the mall needs is a guy with a squeegee and/or a wet-vac.
That was funny, Street.
Maybe it is just me, but are we promoting a company that none of us work for? I am on to the next blog. Yall’ take care. Go Green, no matter what you all do. Do it with the cleaners. Do it with recycling. Do it with the BlueRidge EcoShop. Do it with bamboo. Do it with everything. Just Do It! That was from Nike.
Hey Jimmie Walker
I destroy my sweaters
Dy-no-mite!!!
Hey Ahem - I hear ya. lol but I need my sweaters. With the price of gas, I cannot afford to burn anything. I am a caucasian male, but did get joked a few times as a kid. Wait, more than a few times. Why did I put my real name up here? I’m stupid.
Jimmy Walker.. hi, welcome to cVillain. You will notice we are a bunch of snarky, thick skinned talkers, closely related to hybrids of lizards and Australians, only we live in Charlottesville.
Yes, we understand you are right, but you can’t actually be right on cVillain. You can be drunk, you can be silly, you can be hawt, but you can’t be right. It’s just that way.
For instance, one of the proper responses to Villanaieaiouvy would be this:
@17, Vanilla Boy, In my backyard, my hands wash you.
Can we get some more appropriate responses?
James, welcome to the internets. Yes, we are a snarky bunch, but we mean very well. From your 20 mile radius discussion I see you know your geography….on cvillain you must read through the lines, I do not know what radius they used, but most of the cars near the downtown mall were plastered with these stupid flyers. I don’t think it would be such a big deal if they were a regular dry cleaner…but when you claim you are trying to make cville a greener/cleaner place and use commonplace marketing tactics that are known to be annoying and utterly wasteful (flyers and junk mail-I mean the physical mailbox not spam), it is a bit deceitful.
I would also prefer to take my clothes to a green dry cleaner, but based on our first “impression”, they don’t seem so green and their intentions are forever doubtful.
but you can’t actually be right on cVillain.
You’re right.
oh crap
you’re a snark.
is this the part where the internet explodes and we all die?
What actually makes them “green” anyway? Is it that they don’t use harmful chemicals in the dry cleaning process? Or do they just use energy saving equipment? No one really knows what green refers to in this case, so a lot of us are skeptical, certainly in light of the hypocrisy of putting unrecyclable flyers everywhere.
From their site:
The use of liquid CO2 in the dry cleaning process allows us to reuse this form of energy created by businesses and local industry. The gas is never released into the atmosphere because our processor grabs it before it gets to that point. “CO2 is the same gas you exhale with every breath and the gas that creates bubbles in soft drinks.” Trust us, you do not want to drink the chemical perchloroethylene (Perc), which is a solvent used in the majority of dry cleaners nationwide. Disposal of this chemical is treated as hazardous waste.
Cleaning with CO2, your garments lack the presence of that chemical odor, noticed in regular dry cleaned garments. If your garments were alive, they would have an appreciation for the use of CO2 in the cleaning process because it doesn’t require heat to dry, it’s non-toxic, non-flammable, and odorless.”
What it doesn’t say is where it gets the C02 from…if it is created in a plant as opposed to being sequestered from the air through some cool technology I don’t see the benefit. Boo.
It’s not easy being green.
@ 26 but we mean very well
Speak for yourself.
@26 we mean very well, but we’re also very mean.
What do you mean?
We’re also very average.
And, to top it all off, CO2 doesn’t clean worth a damn.
On average, would you say we are mean or we mean what we say?
Your mother smells like kitty litter!
No you’ve got it wrong. My ex-wife (who had 20 cats) smells like kitty litter. Now I need mental floss.
anything more than one is strange
@41: Shut up. Some of us have big hearts.
And some of us are strange.
Some of us have no heart.
@42 >1 is creepy, ask any person who doesn’t own a cat, or just owns one cat
@45: Don’t drink Haterade. Yeah, crazy cat ladies are scary and smell. But saying anything more than one is strange is your own narrowminded opinion. It is not strange to have a couple of pets.
Saw a siamese cat tied up to a porch the other day. Who ties up a cat? He was sitting on the sidewalk at the end of his 15 ft range, licking himself in the strange show off yoga way that only cats can…. Stupid cats. Felt bad for the exibitionist kitty and wanted to kick the owner.
@45 et al >1 cat is creepy but >1 dog not creepy. Wonder why
@47: WTF?!! Gimme that address!
@42 Biggest heart of all, then?
I disagree, more than one cat isn’t necessarily creepy…I’d say 4-5 or more gets creepy.
@49……… they’ll find that woman’s cat cleaned bones someday………..way toooooooooo many cats.
We already had a “green” dry cleaner - they used to be called Terra Bella but now they go by something else. And the best part is they deliver (maybe not the most green thing in the world, but it keeps me from getting in the car).
@52: I hear they remove pee stains from pants.
I think that once you break the 4 cat barrier, you’re in trouble. 3 cats may be toeing the line.
3 cats is definitely the saturation point. I only chose one of them, though, the other two were dumped on me.
@31 So they’re breathing on clothes to clean them? Tried that, trust me doesn’t work.
@53 - has someone been reading a certain pregnancy blog lately? ; )
Has someone been linking to it lately?
@49 HOLY Cat crap, Batman.
@10 It’s not often I agree with Ethan, but he summed up the situation excellently in #10.
Hey Vanillavy- Thank you,for not biting my head off. lol All of you are cool with me. I went to grab some refreshments at the event at the eco cleaners thingy today. It wasn’t bad at all. Very informative. I asked them about the collection of CO2 and I was pleased with the response. The CO2 is turned into liquid under pressure. The CO2 is not created in a plant for use in the process. It is the CO2 that a company produces from not being green, but the suppliers of the liquid CO2 to green cleaners approach these companies to collect the CO2 before it is released into the atmosphere. It is like a person with a vehicle running off of vegetable oil or something and the driver goes to restaurants asking for that waste. Pretty cool. I didn’t have my sweaters today because Vanillavy had me all scared. lol I will take it this week, oh, I guess tomorrow. Where are the days going? Anyways, I will let C’Villain know what happens. Blogging seems to be addictive. You guys are funny, so it is easy to be addictive to the blog. Maybe, I will start one. Would you write on my blog? Vanillavy, I want your help with getting the blog out for me. I will think of one. Thank you.
Ethan, go to the site. I found out about it from Vanillavy. It’s located at the top of the blog.
Been away a little, but I received my sweaters back from eco dry cleaners and they were great. Clean with no chemical smell. I am a customer now. Thanks to you guys because I did not know they were there until I read this blog. Speaking of blogs, Vanillavy, I have a blog which I am posting today. It is about Fridays After 5. An incident which I had seen but heard no coverage about it.
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I agree, they are not really acting as green. We are a “Green” dry cleaning company in every sense of the word, and we strive to stay this way because i have seen what common dry cleaners produce. The chemicals are unbearable and terrible for our planet.