The Systemic Changes Needed to Promote the Widespread Use of Wet Washing

To promote the wide application of wet cleaning in the international laundry industry, a series of system changes are needed. These changes involve technology, policy, market education, and economic incentives.
Technological Innovation and Standardization
● Laundry equipment and laundry detergents should be innovated so as to improve the efficiency of wet cleaning and environmental protection.
❑ more efficient  ❑ more water-saving  ❑ more energy-saving 
● International standards and laundry industry norms should be made and promoted to ensure that service quality and technical levels in different countries and regions are the same. 
● Wet cleaning technology should be innovated to reduce bad impacts on the environment and improve the laundry effects. 
❑ intelligent control systems ❑ low-temperature laundry ❑ micro-nano bubbles
Policy Support and Legal Guidance
● The government should introduce relevant policies to encourage the laundry industry to adopt eco-friendly laundry technology.
For example: ❑ tax breaks ❑ subsidies ❑ other economic incentives.

● Also, the government should make stricter policies about environmental protection, constraining or prohibiting dry cleaning solvents that have a large bad impact on the environment, and promote the laundry industry’s transformation to more eco-friendly methods like wet cleaning. 
● They should strengthen environmental supervision and make sure that the laundry industry obeys environmental policy and reduces pollution emissions.
Education and Consumer Awareness Enhancement 
● It is necessary to use media, the Internet, public service advertisements, and other channels to strengthen the publicity and promotion of wet washing and improve consumers’ environmental awareness and acceptance.
● Consumers should be educated to know the environmental protection differences between different laundry methods and choose the more eco-friendly laundry services. 
● Also, a green consumer credit system should be established which encourages consumers to choose eco-friendly laundry services first. 
The Establishment and Improvement of the Fundamental Facilities
● The investment in the infrastructure of the laundry industry, including building more laundry factories that meet the environmental requirements and upgrading drainage systems should be increased.    

● The construction of a centralized treatment and recycling system of washing should be promoted to reduce the impact of wastewater discharge on the environment.
● In urban and community planning, reserving enough space for setting up eco-friendly laundry facilities for the convenience of residents is necessary.
Economic Model Innovation and Cooperation
● New economic models should be explored so as to reduce laundry costs and environmental burdens for individual consumers.
❑ For example, shared laundry services under the sharing economy model. 
● The cooperation in the laundry industry and the cooperation with other industries should be strengthened to jointly promote the R&D and application of eco-friendly laundry technology.
● An integrated system of eco-friendly laundry technology should be established in terms of :
❑ production ❑ study ❑ research ❑ application 
Monitoring and Evaluation
● A monitoring and evaluation system for eco-friendly laundry technology such as wet cleaning, should be established and their environmental, economic, and social benefits should be established. 
● To ensure that eco-friendly laundry technology can be continuously promoted and applied, the policies and actions should be adjusted according to the assessment. 
● The implementation of all these systemic changes can effectively promote wider adoption of eco-friendly laundry technologies, like wet washing, in the global laundry industry, and promote the development of the entire laundry industry in a greener and more sustainable direction.