General

• 2020 TRSA Healthcare, Linen, Scrubs, and Other Workwear Laundering Benchmarking Report
• Industrial Laundry and Dry Cleaning: up to 3 more sustainable compared to household washer and drying
  
• Professional Textile Cleaning
  
• The Basics on Ebola and Textiles: Information for You and Your Clients
  
• The Facts About Reusable Textiles
  
• Case Study: Reusables are a Safe Choice
  
• Case Study: Reusable Textiles, A Smart Business Decision
  
• Case Study: Life Cycle Assessments Make the Case for Reusable Textiles
  
• Case Study: Carilion Clinic
  
• Case Study: Novo Health Services
  
• How to Convert Clients & Deliver Value to Help Keep Them
  
• How Operators Can Leverage ARTA's Sustainability Material
  
• What is the industry focusing on?
  
• Jae Mather - Q&A from ARTA Education Conference 2024
  
• Driving Sustainability: Sustainability Trends in Machinery
  
• Focus on Sustainability in Commercial Laundries
  
• Towards a Sustainable Health System
  
• Estimated incidence rate of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) linked to laundered reusable healthcare textiles (HCTs) in the United States and United Kingdom over a 5-year period: Do the data support the efficacy of approved laundry practices?
  
• Reusable textile microfiber and laundry in healthcare: Critical analysis of problematic published information

Surgical Gowns

• Economic Assessment of Annual Costs of Reusable Versus Disposable Surgical Gowns
• An Environmental Analysis of Reusable and Disposable Surgical Gowns
  
• Life Cycle Assessment of Multiple-Use Surgical Gowns with Disposable Gowns
  
• Safety and hygiene of surgical gowns and surgical drapes

Surgical Drapes, Tapes, and Wrappers

• Life Cycle Assessment of Surgical Drapes and Tapes: Reusable and Disposable

Isolation Gowns

• Environmental considerations in the selection of isolation gowns: A life cycle assessment of reusable and disposable alternatives
• Life Cycle Assessment of Isolation Gowns: Reusable and Disposable
  
• Case Study: UCLA Health
  
• Economic Impact Study: The Importance and Preliminary Data on Isolation Gowns
  
• Isolation Gowns An Economic Assessment of Annual Costs of Reusables Versus Disposables

Cleanroom

• O.R. Textiles: How to Convert Disposable O.R. Clients to Reusable & Deliver Value to Help Keep Them

• Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable and Disposable Cleanroom Coveralls

Underpads

• Eco-efficiency Analysis Incontinence Bed Pads
  
• Incontinence Bed Pads Eco-Efficiency Analysis Final Report
  
• Reusable and Disposable Healthcare Incontinence Pad Textiles – Comparative Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
  
• Reusable and Disposable Incontinence Underpads: Environmental Footprints as a Route for Decision Making to Decarbonize Health Care
  
• Reusables versus Disposables: An Economic Assessment of Annual Costs for Incontinence Underpads
  

Microfiber

• Reusable textile microfiber and laundry in healthcare: Critical analysis of problematic published information
• Microfiber mops/cloths Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
  
• Bicomponent Split Microfiber Reusable Textile Products to Achieve a Hygienically Clean Healthcare Setting with a More Sustainable Environmental Footprint
  
• Economic Assessment of Annual Costs of Reusable Versus Disposable Microfiber Flat Mops and Wipers
  

PPE

• Disposable versus reusable medical gowns: a performance comparison
  
• Comparison of Bacteria on New Disposable Home and Hospital Laundered Scrubs

Antimicrobial Textiles

• Reduction of Health Care-Associated Infections (HAIs) with Anti-microbial Inorganic Nanoparticles in Medical Textiles: An Economic Assessment

C. Diff. 

• The efficacy of a simulated tunnel washer process on removal and destruction of Clostridioides difficile spores from health care textiles

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