City of Minneapolis, MN General Interest, 18 Feb 2016

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From YouTube: Minneapolis Green Business Cost Share program

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The City of Minneapolis is partnering with businesses to improve air quality for residents and workers. Learn about the City of Minneapolis’ Green Business Cost Share program by watching this video. Business owners can find out more about the program by clicking, http://www.minneapolismn.gov/environment/green/index.htm

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Dry cleaning can be a dirty business., especially when it comes to the main.

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Chemical solvent in dry, cleaning:, perchloroethylene known as perc.. It's a neurotoxin.

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That can cause health problems like kidney damage., the owner of avestapolis.

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Cleaners wanted to find a cleaner, greener way of doing business.

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Who wants to work in a place that they expose you to chemical? Nobody, and if you.

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Have a good conscience and and you're a good person and then then you should.

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Think, whatever is good for you should be good for everybody else.. The same goes for the.

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Folks, here at smyth companies., they wanted to reduce emissions from printing.

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Labels., we basically took a process where we're printing with a solvent base.

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Product and replaced it with a uv product.. The led allowed us to actually.

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Maintain efficiencies and, at the same time,.

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Replace out the technologies., we are eliminating about 14,000 pounds of voc.

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Emissions per year., but making these changes can be expensive.. That's where the.

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Minneapolis green business cost share comes in.. The city covers a third of the.

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Cost to help businesses make changes that can reduce worker exposure to.

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Harmful chemicals and protect neighborhoods from air pollution.

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A variety of businesses may be eligible for cost shares:, drycleaners,, auto shops,.

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Printers and others that find ways to help clean the air in minneapolis.

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Just like the rest of the world are trying to figure out. How do we improve the process.

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And leave less of a trail behind us.

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The cost share program targets, pollutants that increase the risk of heart and.

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Liver diseases and or some forms of cancer.

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Businesses using these pollutants inadvertently released them into the.

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Nearby neighborhoods. and workers often have hundreds of times more exposure.

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Than the neighbors do., thanks to a green business, cost share and help from the.

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State of minnesota, oscar's, auto body, switched from solvent-based to.

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Waterborne paint,, which reduces its chemical pollution by about 80%. the.

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Improvements benefit not just the shops employees, but also folks, who use the.

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Nearby midtown greenway. the change cuts down on pollution and improves the air.

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Quality for the shops workers., their happiness is dependent on their health,, so they need to.

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Be healthy to come to work and be able to stay here for years and cutting down.

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On what they breathe in is really important., and thanks to green business.

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Cost share, avestapolis cleaners was able to remove a dry cleaning machine.

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That used perch and switch to a more environmentally-friendly dry cleaning.

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Process., our business actually has grown just by just telling people that we are.

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Greener, we don’t use chemical and a lot of people are asking it’s, as if you.

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Go to a restaurant and you're asking them,: do you have gluten or no.

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Gluten, gluten free., ours is perc free.. It makes me feel confident in the business for.

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Years to come and for the industry as a whole, actually.

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Green business cost share is made possible through partnerships between the city of minneapolis.

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And the environmental initiative, minnesota pollution control agency and the university of minnesota's.

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Technical assistance program. for more information on the green business.

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Cost share program, check out the city of minneapolis website or call 311.