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1、费城洗衣实现环保时间:2014-08-24 20:35来源:VOA官网 收听下载次数：51次加布里埃尔曼德佳若(Gabriel Mandujano)运营着一个公司名为“循环洗衣服”的保洁服 务。四年前，他在美国宾夕法尼亚州的费城开始了这项服务。当时，四年前加布里埃尔先生 有3个目标：盈利、开发市场、保持绿色一一即不对环境造成伤害。现在，他不仅实现了这 些目标，而且他的商机正在扩大。不难找到为“循环洗衣服”工作的人们。他们穿着鲜艳的橘黄色丁恤衫，在华盛顿特区的街 巷中骑着带有橘黄色大拖车的自行车。这些骑自行车的人和他们的车辆收集整理着脏衣服并 将干净衣服给客户所服务的用户。这是“循环洗衣服”不同
2、于其他对手之处。但这并不 是唯一的不同点。衣服和床单被当地生产的并且是环境友好型的清洁产品所清洗。加布里埃尔曼德佳若希望“循环洗衣服”保持“绿色”所使用的产品考虑了对环境的 安全性。但是他也希望他的公司能保持竞争力。“我思考了大量的时间，当人们听到环境友好型，他们自动档认为更贵。但是洗衣真 的是一个整洁的产业，当节约用能用水会更节约(成本)而不是去浪费它们。”他注意到使用其他企业的设备成本更低。“我们已经完成了数百万英镑的衣服。但是我们事实上没有一台我们自己的洗衣设备。我们 没有给市场带来任何新的东西。我们所做的与众不同之处是，相比于建造一个通常在工业园 区，有的里市区40到50英里远巨大的工
3、厂,我们已经建立了我们自己的大量小规模的工厂, 它们离我们的客户大约3到4个街区。我们总在寻找尚未充分利用的洗衣店，然后我们和业 主签了某种协议，即在他们打烽的时候使用它们的洗衣房。加布里埃尔曼德佳若说道，华盛顿似乎是一个不错的地方来建立他的保洁服务。“这里有很多人没有时间洗衣服，但是微薄的收入里足以有支付我们服务的结余。”加布里埃尔先生曾经就职于社区发展非营利组织。他说，那段经历仍旧继续影响着他的经商 决策。“大约有一半的雇员来自你所称为脆弱的成年人的群体。这就意味着他们可能经历过长 期的失业。他们可能是刚刚结束了公共福利计划(的培训)，一些人正在从错误的表现中恢 复改正，一些人有过监禁的历
4、史。”沙文斯福克斯(Shawnice Foxx)是公司里刚刚入职的雇员之一。“我曾认为由于我的个人问题，我不能够继续工作在这里，但是他们给予了我很多的帮助。 我仍然在这里，并且现在每一件事都在朝着好处发展。我正尝试着仅仅维持这一份工作，并 且能够干儿年并得到提拔，而不是在一份又一份工作中寻求希望。” 吉姆斯达姆(JimStarn)是“循环洗衣服”的满意顾客。他经营着一家按摩治疗公司。他 喜欢这家公司为帮助那些需要帮助的人们所做的努力，还有保持绿色的理念。“这很容易。我不用去担心卡车的到来、交通堵塞、人们被激怒。同时，我喜欢这样一个事 实，不仅仅是没有使用汽油。因为我开的是按摩工作室，人们来到我
5、们这里寻求的是自然健 康和备选方案。所以事实上我们不用担心关于化学药剂和漂白剂以及所有这些能被用于洗衣 上的物质，洗好的衣服送回来时一尘不染是非常棒的。”澈斯沃尔克(ChisWalke)的工作是“循环洗衣服”的自行车手，他解释了为什么他喜欢 这份工作。“我骑着四处运动，是活动着的。沐浴在阳光下，我的身体是忙碌的，但是我的大脑是轻松 的，这一点我真的很重视。”这也是加布里埃尔曼德佳若当初建立这家公司时所追求的。“当我告诉我的家人，我要辞职创建洗衣公司，他们可能或多或少有点担心。这并不是一个 最具魅力的职业，它并不像去吃顿晚餐或是鸡尾酒晚宴上说，我是一个医生、我是一名 律师、我是一位银行家我认为当
6、公司已经起步，人们开始看到我们能够实现什么以及 我们可能走向哪里的前景。”他计划向美国其他城市扩大“循环洗衣服”的市场，同时他希望，(将“循环洗衣服”)推广 至世界。我是鲍勃道夫特。本故事基于福埃萨艾玛丝瑞(Faiza Elmasry)的报道整理而成。Philadelphia Laundry Succeeds byBeing GreenGabriel Mandujano operates a cleaning service called Wash Cycle Laundry. He opened the service four years ago in the American city
7、of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time, Mr. Mandujano had three goals: earning a profit, developing community and staying green - not harming the environment. Now, he has not only met those goals, but his business is expanding.It is not hard to find people working for Wash Cycle Laundry. They we
8、ar bright orange t-shirts and ride bicycles with big orange trailers on the streets of Washington, D.C. The cyclists and their vehicles pick up dirty laundry and take clean clothing to customers - users of the service. That separates Wash Cycle Laundry from other businesses. But that is not the only
9、 difference. The clothing and linens are cleaned with locally produced and environmentally friendly cleaning products.Gabriel Mandujano wanted Wash Cycle Laundry to go green - using products considered safe for the environment. But he also wanted his company to stay competitive.I think a lot of time
10、, when people hear environmentally friendly, they automatically think more expensive. But laundry is really a neat industry where it is cheaper to save water and energy than it is to waste it.He notes that it costs less to use the equipment of other companies.Weve done millions of pounds of laundry.
11、 But we actually do not own a single washing machine ourselves. We are not bringing anything new to the market. What weve done differently is rather than building one gigantic plant, often in industrial parks, somewhere that is 40 or 50 miles away from the city, weve established ourselves in a lot o
12、f sort of micro plants, where we are three or four blocks away from our clients. We always find laundries that are under-utilized and then we make a sort of an agreement with the ownership of that laundry to use it during their downtimes.Gabriel Mandujano says Washington seemed like a good place to
13、set up his cleaning service.There are a lot of people who do not have the time, but do have a little bit of income that they can use to afford our service.Mr. Mandujano once worked with community development non-profit groups. He says that experience continues to influence his business decisions.Abo
14、ut half of our employees are from what you call a vulnerable adult population. That means they could have been chronically unemployed. They could have been coming off a public benefits program, a number are in recovery from stance abuse. Some have a history of incarceration.Shawnice Foxx is one of t
15、he companys newest employees.I thought I wasnt going to be able to continue working here because of my personal problems, but they helped me out. Im still here and everything is going great now. I am trying to just sustain one job and be able to be there for years and advance in a company instead of
16、 keep hopping from job to job.Jim Starn is a satisfied customer of Wash Cycle Laundry. He owns a massage therapy business. He likes the companys effort to help those in need and to go green.Its easy. I do not have to worry about a truck coming by and blocking traffic and people being irritated. And I love the fact that they arent just using all that gasoline. Because were a massage studio, people
