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TRSA Encouraging Member Participation at the Clean Show
As a sponsoring partner and co-host of the Clean Show; the Textile Rental Services Association of America (TRSA) is encouraging TRSA members, operators and associations, to actively participate. TRSA recently launched its new web site – www.TRSA.org – with information to educate business consumers of textile services including a special online Search for Textile Services and Industry Facts, as well as Blogs and resources to share information with colleagues.

TRSA Clean 2011 Activities
TRSA Textile Services Night on the Strip Reception
Sunday, June 5, 2011
6 – 9 pm
Hilton Las Vegas

 Network with fellow TRSA operators and associates while dining on heavy or’devours and cocktails while mingling with legendary Las Vegas entertainers!

Visit TRSA Associates and Win BIG!
TRSA will be conducting a daily contest that encourages operators to visit TRSA associate members booths to learn more about the latest technologies, machinery and services to streamline operations, improve productivity and increase profitability. Attend the TRSA Reception or visit the TRSA Booth at the Clean Show for entry cards and details.

In addition, as an incentive for supporting the Clean Show, TRSA Associates receive enhanced listings in on the TRSA Textile Services Buyers Guide – www.TRSABuyersGuide.org – including extended corporate, product and service descriptions; premium position and logos and links.

TRSA Interactive Educational Sessions
Monday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 7
8 am – 10 am

 TRSA will be hosting a series of interactive sessions with national and international textile services experts and leaders including:

-International Textile Services Market – Interactive panel of international leaders of textile services associations on emerging operational trends, supply chain concerns and regulatory issues.

-Regulatory and Legislative Update – regulatory agencies and department are advancing 100s proposed rules, regulations and policy changes covering contracting, ergonomics, workplace safety, hiring/firing and union organizing; gain insight from the only organization representing your interests in Washington fighting for fair, balanced regulation and pro-business tax and labor policy – TRSA!

-Safety, SafeTRSA and Enterprise Risk Management – SafeTRSA has helped the textile services industry reduce recordable workplace injuries and illnesses by 50% improving safety, increasing productivity and reducing liability.  Receive the latest results of TRSA’s 2011 Industry Safety Report, successful negotiations with BLS and discover practical resources to promote efficient, cost-effective risk management investments.

-LaundryESP the Next Step: “Clean Green” Accreditation – TRSA’s LaundryESP® developed in cooperation with EPA was updated in February 2011; gain insight into the results to identify best practices for reducing energy and water consumption and sustainability. Be the first to learn about TRSA’s new “Clean Green” voluntary, multi-level accreditation

If you are a manufacturer or distributor in the dry cleaning or laundry industry, you should know about the Textile Care Allied Trades Association (TCATA). Its’ main purpose is as an advocate on behalf of the allied trades before legislators and regulators. Whether it be issues specific to the dry cleaning and laundry industry or larger issues affecting businesses in general, the interests of TCATA members are most effectively represented by joining together with a single voice – that voice is TCATA. The Association often participates in coalitions with partner organizations to achieve the best result.

In addition to its primary advocacy role, TCATA offers a host of benefits and services to help the allied trades company perform more efficiently and profitably. With offerings from webinars on current issues, an annual conference offering an outstanding business program and free consultations with experts on a variety of issues – to name just a few benefits – TCATA is the best source of information for the allied trades.

In 1920, realizing that channeling the power of the many into a single voice would be beneficial to all, the allied trades joined together to form TCATA. While much has changed in the 91 years since then, the need for a strong, single voice for the allied trades remains. TCATA continues to fill that need. For more information, visit www.tcata.org.

Did you ever wonder what happens to those partially used soap bars and half-full shampoo bottles after you check out of your hotel room? If you stay at one of the eight Harrah’s properties in Las Vegas, the soap and shampoo goes to people in Haiti and other third-world countries who are in dire need of it.

The organization making that happen is Orlando, Fla.–based Clean the World. Since its launch in 2009, the nonprofit has collected and distributed about six million bars of soap and 300,000 pounds of shampoo to people in need. Clean the World Executive Director Shawn Seipler introduced the program to the nearly 250 meeting planners who attended the Las Vegas Educational Experience, presented by Las Vegas Meetings by Harrah’s Entertainment, November 11–14.

Harrah’s eight properties in Las Vegas—Paris, Bally’s, Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Rio, Harrah’s, Imperial Palace, and Planet Hollywood—were among the first hotels to participate in the program, and the Clean the World is now collecting soap daily from about 100,000 hotel rooms in North America.

At Harrah’s, for example, partially used soap is collected by the hotel housekeepers, placed in bins, and then shipped to Clean the World, which sterilizes it at recycling facilities in Orlando, Toronto, and Vancouver. In the past three months alone, Harrah’s has donated 20,000 pounds of soap. In October, Harrah’s Foundation announced a $100,000 donation to Clean the World to develop a soap-recycling facility in Las Vegas.

Seipler, speaking on November 12, said he had just returned from earthquake-ravaged Haiti where he delivered thousands of bars of soap to children and families living in tent cities. Seipler says the program is literally saving lives, as millions of people die every year because of hygiene-related illnesses. Not only that, the program has diverted about 340 tons of waste since its inception.

This year, Clean the World launched a program specifically for meeting planners, encouraging groups to implement the program as part of their contracts. Already, 30 meeting and events have participated. Seipler notes that when meeting planners sign up to participate, soap from the entire hotel gets recycled, not just from the room block.

Soap deliveries to impoverished countries, Seipler says, could help “lead a hygiene revolution,” which “can change history in our lifetime. We’re so happy that the hospitality industry and Harrah’s are helping us.”

Article from MeetingsNet Extra. Written by Dave Kovaleski.