Hotels and other hospitality businesses guzzle about 15 percent of the water used commercially (PDF) every year in the United States. The laundries they run to keep guest linens fresh are among the top three consumers — after private and public bathrooms and alongside landscape irrigation.
Take these figures across the world, and hotels use an excessive amount of water both in Laundry & Landscape Irrigation.
I love this idea by Xeros, an 11-year-old British-born technology firm. Xeros uses recyclable polymer beads that, when combined with its detergent, become ionized so that they pull dirt and stains away from the fabric. Rather than filling the entire drum with water, the "extractor" adds it gradually and continually — like the difference between taking a showing and soaking in a bath tub. The dirt is released along with the water into the hotel’s conventional drainage systems, but the beads are captured separately after each cycle, recharged and then reused. The company’s systems currently come in 35-pound and 90-pound models.
Full article:- https://www.greenbiz.com/article/greener-approach-laundry-ask-hilton-and-hyatt
Xeros product offering: http://www.xeroscleaning.com/xeros-sbeadycare
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