Mr. Speaker, congratulations are in order for the Ontario Fibricare Association and the Korean Dry Cleaners Association that have taken their cleaning one step further.
Recently they signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ontario and federal Ministers of the Environment to establish a Green Clean project, a voluntary pollution prevention initiative which promotes water based technologies and processes as an alternative to the use of chemicals in the dry cleaning industry.
The Toronto Green Clean depot is the first of seven such cleaners to be outfitted by Environment Canada for January 1995. The depot's objectives are to educate consumers on green cleaning and to promote wet technology to industry members.
Governments, corporations, environmental groups, industry associations and individual Canadians must work together to improve the environment for all of us. This initiative will work to eliminate the paradox that getting our cleaning done means polluting our environment.
It is another step toward achieving our goal of a green clean Canada.