Clever Beacon Hill Shop Cleans Green + Clothes Planet

Clevergreen Cleaners, an environmentally-friendly dry cleaner, is marking Earth Day with a clothing drive this month in honor of Earth Day. Used clothing will be cleaned and sent to Planet Aid, a non-profit group located in several states that raises money for those in need in third-world countries.

Once the group receives the clothing, they resell it and proceeds go towards education and HIV/AIDS programs in Africa and Asia. Chelsea, an employee at Clevergreen, estimates about 30-something people have donated their used clothes over the past few weeks.

“We’ve been pretty successful. We could use more children’s clothes, since we’ve been mostly getting adult’s. But we’re not complaining,” she said.

For the rest of the year, Clevergreen likes to think of itself as celebrating Earth Day every day because it uses DF 2000, a biodegradable cleaning solvent. The company usese less than one gallon of DF2000 to clean 40 pounds of clothes, she said. Since the clothing never actually gets wet, there is no need for drying equipment that consumes lots of energy.