Tag: Wash Cycle Laundry

Wash Cycle, which has been around for six years, puts its own spin—pun incredibly intended—on industrial washing. They supply some of the standard laundering fair, including linens, sheets, towels, custodial supplies, floor mats, and clean clothes in bulk for universities and hospitals. They commit to the environmental bit, using all-natural detergents and high-efficiency laundry machines. But it’s the trip that the laundry takes that really sets it apart: Wash Cycle’s wares are carted around via bicycle to their local facilities. The company currently has campuses open in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and currently employs roughly 50, just about 40 of whom are stationed in Philly.
https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wash-cycle-laundry-gabriel-mandujano/

Wash Cycle Laundry is proving that bikes are commercially-scalable alternatives to trucks for intra-metropolitan freight. Over 3 million pounds of cargo are hauled across Philadelphia and Washington DC since the company began in 2010.
http://untoursfoundation.org/2016/03/wash-cycle-laundry-up-close-and-personal/

Not only do they worry about their environmental footprint, but also their ability to create jobs in disadvantaged communities. Half of Wash Cycle’s staff comes from vulnerable backgrounds — that is, they have been formerly incarcerated, on welfare, or homeless.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eshachhabra/2015/05/26/philly-startup-hires-marginalized-staff-and-delivers-300-pounds-of-laundry-on-bikes-successfully/#463cd488630b