The Environmental Benefits of Outsourced Towel Services
Outsourcing towel service through Kimmel Corp. enhances uniform rental programs while delivering measurable environmental benefits.
Why Outsourcing Towel Service Matters
When a business already subscribes to uniform rental, adding a towel service makes sense — not just operationally, but environmentally. At Kimmel Corporation, we deliver full towel/linen service alongside uniforms, mats, and facility solutions. In this post, we explain why outsourcing towel service reduces waste, conserves resources, and strengthens your company’s green credentials.
1. Reuse Beats Disposable
Most facilities tempted to manage towels in-house lean on disposables (paper, single-use wipes) or constant replacement. A professional towel service converts that model into one based on reuse. Textile rental operations routinely cycle the same towels through cleaning, inspection, repair, and re-delivery. That cycle dramatically reduces solid waste compared to buying, discarding, and replacing disposable products. By bundling towel service with uniform rental, you follow the same reuse logic that already drives efficiencies in uniform programs.
2. Centralized Laundering Slashes Water, Energy & Chemicals
In-facility or decentralized laundering — small loads, varied machines, older plumbing — wastes water, energy, and cleaning chemistry. By contrast, Kimmel’s centralized laundry operations optimize load sizes, temperature control, chemical dosing, and energy recovery. That yields lower per-unit resource consumption.
Industry research confirms that outsourced textile laundering uses less water, energy, and chemistry compared to dispersed in-house operations. Kimmel monitors your usage and maintains your inventory (for example, weekly counts and exchanges). This allows us to balance volume and frequency to match your demand, minimizing idle capacity and wasted cycles.
3. Longer Life for Towels Through Professional Care
Your staff might not spot early wear or perform small repairs on towels. Over time, that’s costlier and environmentally wasteful. In contrast, Kimmel inspects each towel, replaces or repairs it proactively, and recycles those no longer usable. That nurturing extends usable life and delays replacement, which in turn lowers embedded environmental costs. Such costs include things like raw materials, transportation, dyeing, energy in manufacture, and disposal.
4. Eliminated On-Site Laundry Footprint
By outsourcing towel service, you avoid installing washers, dryers, ventilation, dryer fuel, detergent storage, wastewater treatment, and other infrastructure. That means less electricity, less water, and fewer chemicals used onsite. It also removes the “worst offenders” from local utility demand. Essentially, you subcontract the environmental burden to specialists who manage it more cleanly at scale.
5. Lower Carbon from Smarter Logistics
Kimmel routes towel deliveries in tandem with uniform, linen, and facility service deliveries. Consolidated routing means fewer trucks on the road compared to managing separate towel vendors or patchwork suppliers. That reduces fuel use and carbon emissions per delivery. Likewise, consolidated logistics cut back on vehicle idle time, duplicate trips, and other inefficiencies.
6. Stronger Green Branding and Compliance
If your organization pursues green building certifications or ESG (environment, social, governance) goals, outsourced towel service helps. Reusing textiles, reducing water and energy consumption, and avoiding disposables all support sustainability goals. Plus, outsourcing shifts liability: you gain the reporting data, and Kimmel shoulders compliance and environmental best practices in laundry operations.
Contact Kimmel Corporation Today
Outsourcing towel service via Kimmel Corp. augments your uniform rental with a powerful environmental multiplier. You get the reuse benefits, resource efficiencies, longer textile life, and lower on-site burden. And you do it all while lowering carbon and strengthening your sustainability story.
If you currently manage your towels in-house, consider letting Kimmel absorb that load (literally and figuratively). It’s better for your bottom line and better for the planet. Contact us today to learn more!
