Green Garmento makes your dry-clean routine less frustrating, more eco-friendly

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I loathe taking my clothes to the dry cleaner. It’s part laziness and part frustration with all the wire hangers, static-y plastic covering and crumpled tissue paper stuffed into sleeves. I ask them nicely to ease up on the materials used to “protect” my clothing - that I’ll take my chances with bird droppings, puddle splashes or rain when toting the stuff from the dry-clean counter to my car, but they’re generally too busy to accommodate my request.

So imagine my delight when I stumbled upon Green Garmento -- a convertible bag that is a hanging garment bag, duffle and hamper. I sling the fabric bag over a door knob (you can also hang it over a wood frame like a real hamper), throwing items to be dry cleaned in it throughout the week, the bag cinches at one end and you can throw the long strap over your body to carry. When bringing it to the dry cleaner, simply take your stuff out the bag, convert it into a garment bag and ask them to please hang your clean clothes back in there, eliminating all the plastic and paper waste.
It creates less garbage and saves the time and stress of unwrapping each piece of clothing from the confines of the sticky plastic and useless tissue paper.

Each bag is $9.99, holds 12 to 15 garments (hanging) and is available at www.thegreengarmento.com

-- Melissa Magsaysay

Photo: Green Garmento bag in two of its three forms. Photo credit: Green Garmento