--- title: "How Renting Uniforms Contributes to Sustainability" description: "Renting uniforms offers financial and operational benefits while supporting sustainability. It reduces textile waste through a circular economy, minimizes employee purchases, saves water and electrici" type: "news" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/252715201.md" published_at: "2025-08-12T16:00:00.000Z" --- # How Renting Uniforms Contributes to Sustainability > Renting uniforms offers financial and operational benefits while supporting sustainability. It reduces textile waste through a circular economy, minimizes employee purchases, saves water and electricity, decreases transportation and packaging waste, and encourages responsible disposal. By transitioning to rental services, companies can lower their environmental footprint, streamline operations, and promote eco-friendly practices, ultimately leading to cost savings and a more sustainable business model. **NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 12, 2025 /** Renting uniforms provides numerous financial and operational benefits to companies, including predictable costs, a consistent appearance, and reduced employee time spent managing their work clothing. However, working with a uniform supplier can also support sustainability efforts. From reducing waste and decreasing emissions to conserving energy, transitioning to rental uniform services can help companies minimize their environmental footprint and promote eco-friendly practices. Here are five ways renting uniforms helps sustainability efforts. 1\. Reduces textile waste through circular economy practices Traditional ownership may result in disposal after limited use of the uniform. This can generate more textile waste while the uniform is still usable. On the other hand, renting uniforms promotes a circular economy model, allowing for repeated cycles of wear beyond a single owner. Once the renter no longer needs the uniform, the uniform supplier can rent it to another individual or company. Regular laundering, maintenance, and care extend the lifespans of workwear, allowing them to remain in use even longer before disposal. **2\. Minimizes additional employee purchases** Buying uniforms shifts cleaning and maintenance responsibilities to employees. They might purchase extra uniforms, cleaning supplies, or other items to maintain a professional appearance. This can increase waste and consumption. Renting uniforms removes this burden from employees, ensuring they always have clean, intact uniforms while minimizing additional purchases through standardized repairs, laundering, and replacement when needed. As a result, renting can reduce consumption while maintaining a standardized appearance across the workforce. Plus, employees save money and have fewer responsibilities regarding uniform upkeep. **3\. Saves water and electricity** Uniform rental programs wash and dry the uniforms at commercial laundering facilities in a more standardized and efficient manner, reducing electricity and water consumption. This means employees don't have to wash their uniforms individually, offering further savings. Additionally, centralized laundering prevents employees from washing at home more than necessary to reduce electricity and water use. Overall, uniform rentals can dramatically decrease the use of these resources while saving employees money on utilities at home. **4\. Reduces transportation and packaging waste** Under traditional uniform ownership, employees must drive to and from stores to purchase individually packaged uniforms. The stores must also constantly receive new shipments of uniforms. Both sides contribute to more vehicle emissions and packaging waste. Rental uniforms reduce emissions and other vehicle-related pollution on the consumer and producer sides by reducing customer trips to the store and shipments of apparel to the stores. Additionally, renting reduces the need for new uniform packaging, which minimizes packaging waste and creates a more environmentally friendly solution. **5\. Encourages responsible disposal** Employees may dispose of uniforms in various ways, including throwing them in the garbage. When renting uniforms, on the other hand, the uniform supplier can responsibly retire uniforms when they are no longer fit for use. They can recycle uniforms to be remade into new ones or downcycle them to industrial materials. If the uniforms are in good enough condition, they can donate them and help others in the process. Regardless, uniform suppliers can reduce the number of uniforms that reach landfills and decrease the need to make new ones. **The bottom line** Uniform rentals don't just offer consistency and simplicity. They also help companies adopt a more sustainable business model. Renting uniforms decreases textile and packaging waste, reduces emissions, and minimizes additional employee purchases while conserving energy and water resources. Shifting toward uniform rentals can ultimately help you reduce costs, streamline and standardize aspects of your business, and support sustainability in the process. **CONTACT:** Sonakshi Murze Manager sonakshi.murze@iquanti.com **SOURCE:** UniFirst View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire ### Related Stocks - [WM.US - Waste](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/WM.US.md) ## Related News & Research | Title | Description | URL | |-------|-------------|-----| | 摩根士丹利指出，隨着對交易量的擔憂逐漸消退，Waste Connections 有望重新實現優異表現 | 廢品管理公司有望恢復超越表現，隨着成交量擔憂減退，摩根士丹利表示 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275925293.md) | | Jensen Investment Management Inc. 出售了 87,439 股廢品管理公司（Waste Management, Inc.）的股票，股票代碼為$WM | Jensen Investment Management Inc. 在第三季度減少了對廢品管理公司（NYSE:WM）7.4% 的持股，出售了 87,439 股，剩餘持有 1,086,589 股。廢品管理在 Jensen 的投資組合中佔 3. | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275603872.md) | | 廢品管理公司（NYSE:WM）的首席執行官出售了價值 151,110.00 美元的股票 | 廢品管理公司首席執行官詹姆斯·菲什（James Fish, Jr.）於 2 月 6 日出售了 657 股股票，交易金額為 151,110 美元，減少了 0.26% 的持股比例。出售後，他持有 256,183 股，價值約為 5890 萬美元。 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275591057.md) | | Waste Connections (WCN) 將於明天公佈財報：有哪些值得期待的內容 | Waste Connections 將於明天公佈財報，分析師預計其收入同比增長 4.9%，達到 23.7 億美元，調整後的每股收益為 1.27 美元。該公司在過去兩年中始終超出收入預期，僅有一次未能達標。近期同行的業績顯示出混合表現，Was | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275396329.md) | | 2 月 13 日值得關注的最佳廢品管理股票 | MarketBeat 強調了五隻值得關注的廢品管理股票：Waste Management、GFL Environmental、Custom Truck One Source、Concrete Pumping 和 Avalon。這些公司涉及廢 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275941308.md) | --- > **Disclaimer**: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.