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:: Saturday, March 27, 2004 ::
Industrial Money Laundry-ing By David Donnelly, AlterNet
On November 20, 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new draft regulations that, if adopted, will weaken federal safeguards for employees who handle poison-soaked 'shop' towels. The new rule would exempt industrial laundries like Cintas 'from federal hazardous and solid waste requirements for shop towels contaminated with toxic chemicals.'
This is no small exemption. Each year, 3.8 billion industrial shop towels, which are used to clean up toxic materials or spills in the workplace, or to wipe-down machinery, are sent to be cleaned.
The Bush Administration's proposed rollback is particularly worrisome because Cintas has been found to have repeatedly violated worker safety and environmental protection standards.------------------------------------------- posted 9:23 AM :: reference link ::
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