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Textile Services Association

Plastic Waste / Hotel Linen

23 March 2023

2 minutes

TSA and UKHospitality will work towards reducing single-use plastic from the bed linen supply chain in hotels.

TSA, UKHospitality Agree to Eliminate Single-Use Plastic Waste Created During Servicing of Hotel Linen

In a major step, the UK’s laundry and hospitality industries have agreed to work together to gradually reduce and remove single-use plastic from the processing of bed linen by 2030.

Staff Writer

Workwear Upkeep / Nurses Uniforms

28 October 2022

2 minutes

Nurses and therapists at the Manchester Memorial Hospital. Over 700,000 nurses in the UK wash their uniforms at home. The figure is even higher when you take into account other healthcare workers. The NHS encourages nurses to maintain and care for healthcare workwear at home, even where outsourcing to a commercial laundry is available.

Home Laundering of Healthcare Uniforms Fraught with Danger of Cross-Contamination

UK’s Textile Services Association (TSA) has called on the National Health Service (NHS) to change the guidance on maintaining workwear following a research that says that households face risk of cross-contamination from pathogens that health workers may bring home from work.

Staff Writer

Laundry Trends / Hygiene Protocol

24 August 2022

2 minutes

A research carried out by The Textile Services Association and De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) was centred on creating a testing method to determine the ability of any laundry process to disinfect textile items. However, if the project is to be successful, it cannot stop at just the results but must spearhead a major shift in global healthcare laundering.

Hygiene Protocol Test for Laundries Set Up

A globally recognised hygiene protocol test for laundries has been set up by the Textile Services Association and De Montfort University Leicester with the aim to help guarantee laundry is cleaned hygienically.