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I'm Tim Maxwell. I'm with green
Earth Cleaning based out of Kansas City.

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I'm the president of the company and
have been with green Earth by since

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two thousand. Traditional dry cleaning chemicals
are all petrollium based. Green Earth is

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a liquid silicone, so really unique
chemistry that not only from an operational standpoint

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provides a better product, but also
environmentally, the base product, our greener

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silicone can only degrade to sand,
water and CO two as it degrades naturally

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in the environment. I would say
the dry cleaning industry in general has moved

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forty to fifty percent away from per
chlor ethylene. We're a very interesting company

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from the standpoint of the original makeup
of the company were three dry cleaners who

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were approached by an inventor with technology
that was outside the industry, and then

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Procter and Gamble and General Electric or
founding members of the company as well.

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So the uniqueness of having the entrepreneur
also combined with manufacturing process and research and

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development that allowed for what would be
seen as a big jump forward. I

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knew there was no hope down the
road, all the chemistry that was available

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was going to be problematic, and
because of my relationship with one of the

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founders of Green Earth back in twenty
twelve, that was kind of validated by

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the Ministry Environment of Canada actually issuing
an edict around the specific silicone that we

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use as being environmentally non toxic and
that never really has had a claim in

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