Penn State Hotel Laundries
By Jamie Kiffel

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Institutions Lose Too, When Residents Lose Clothing BY Peter Corr

Many times the Director of Environmental Services, or Housekeeping-Laundry Director will comment on the fact that it is commonplace for laundry staff to have resident clothing that they cannot identify. They simply don’t know who owns the garments. This sad situation is often a result of using markers on labels that wash out when clothes are laundered, or illegibly hand writing resident information labels. Or else, it is because nursing homes are using printer ribbon unsuitable for high temperature laundering. Many times they are forced to place all garments on racks and ask the residents if they recognize who the garments belong to! Sound familiar?

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Money Laundering -- U.S. Currency Withstands a Scrubbing
By Clare Adrian

It’s always disconcerting to accidentally launder a dollar bill, more so, a ten or a twenty. And who hasn’t? Fortunately, a U.S currency note still comes out of the wash in a usable state and will remain in circulation longer than if it hadn’t been absolved. The most frequent reason money is removed from circulation is that it’s soiled, not that it fell apart after being run through a washer. At the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, currency is deliberately washed, on a regular basis, to make sure it will be able to withstand at least that facet of normal everyday wear and tear, which more widely includes a multitude of spills, washes, folds and crumples while in daily usage.

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