Laundry Bag Case Studies

A Trinity Healthcare site in Massachusetts, USA has trialled hot water- soluble laundry bags made from Hydropol™ to see how they compared with their current water-soluble bags. The bags were evaluated successfully in multiple departments and in parallel by their contract laundry supplier. This site has subsequently ordered Hydropol™ laundry bags for use in its urgent care, OBGYN, adult medicine & pediatric departments.

DB Packaging has worked with New South Wales Health in Australia successfully to develop an "eco" laundry bag made from Aquapak's Hydropol™ that meet required standards of strength and barrier whilst negating the contamination risk when handling dirty linen.

The Shangri La in Singapore hold the Safeguard Hygiene Excellence and Safety and Safety Label as Bureau Veritas. Their housekeeping team use laundry bags made from Hydropol to help keep their team and guests safe.

Laundry bags made from Hydropol enable the housekeeping teams at the Doubletree by Hilton in Singapore to bag up used towels and linen safely and send them to be laundered.

Laundry bags made from Hydropol are used to safely bag linen and towels in the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore. With no need to split or debag, the bagged laundry is placed directly in the industrial washing machines and next touched once clean.

By using laundry bags made from Hydropol, the Courtyard by Marriott is able to safely handle its used linen and towels as Hydropol gives reduced pathogen dwell time and dissolves fully during a 70C wash.

Laundry bags made from Hydropol are enabling housekeeping teams to collect and transport laundry safely. Full bags are secured with tie attached and placed directly into the washing machines with no need to debag or split.

Laundry bags made from Hydropol reduce cross-contamination risks to both housekeeping and laundry teams. Being fully dissolvable also means there is no residue to remove from either linen or machines before drying.

Vibha Ecopac, an Indian distributor of laundry bags made from Hydropol, have been supplying hotels across India with laundry bags to use within their housekeeping departments like the ITC Kakatiya in Hyderabad. The water soluble laundry bags made of Hydropol simply dissolve at 70°C and leave no residue or colour behind in the machine or on linen. Other hotels include the Welcomhotel in Coimbatore who have used laundry bags, made from Aquapak's Hydropol, for their housekeeping - the bags dissolved completely in the washing machine without any trace.

Vibha Ecopac, an Indian distributor of laundry bags made from Hydropol, have been supplying hotels across India with laundry bags to use within their housekeeping departments like The Residency Towers in Chennai. Laundry bags made of Hydropol that dissolve during the wash have worked well when washing hotel laundry.