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Why sort?
Proper sorting of laundry can provide significant savings in: time, energy, water, chemicals, productivity and money.
Now is a good time to evaluate and review your present laundry sorting procedures. Do you Pre-Sort or Post-Sort your laundry and which is better?
Post-sorting is when all the laundry is washed together at the same time regardless of linen type, color or soil loading. Everything is lumped together and thrown in the washer. The linen is then sorted after the wash cycle is finished. This is considered the brut force method of laundering, what we call the “atomic flyswatter method”. This process has to wash every piece of linen to the level of the dirtiest diaper. In some cases, state regulations require Post-sorting but realize that this is not very efficient.
Pre-sorting is where all the soiled laundry is separated before washing. Usually the laundry is sorted by color, linen type, the amount of soil, and the type of soil on the linen. In Pre-sorting, each wash load is composed of the same type of linen and will be washed in an optimum cycle for just that linen and soil type. This allows for shorter wash cycles for linen requiring less cleaning and longer cycles for dirtier linen. Although it is a @#%& job there are substantial savings in time, utilities, and chemicals that can be realized.
The chemical supplier is an excellent (and free) source of information on which laundry sorting method is best for your situation. These are the experts that are in 50 different facilities each month and have seen the good, bad and the ugly. Pick their brain and use them as a resource and sounding board. They are the pros who can re-write those 20 year old formula cycles and fine tune them to your current linen requirements. Has the census of your residents changed in the last 10 years, if so then maybe you need to revisit your washing formulas.
