The viability of professional wet cleaning as a pollution prevention alternative to perchloroethylene dry cleaning

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 172-178

  Sinsheimer, Peter ^a   Grout, Cyrus ^a   Namkoong, Angela ^a   Gottlieb, Robert ^a   Latif, Abid ^b  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DRY CLEANING; HEALTH CARE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

NONTOXICITY; PERCHLOROETHYLENE (PCE); WET CLEANING;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLEANING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; COST; ECONOMICS; LAUNDRY;

CLEANING; HEALTH; PERCHLOROETHYLENE; POLLUTION CONTROL; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; LAUNDERING;

EID: 33947727383     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2007.10465320     Document Type: Article

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