Space-age laundry service launches in Cambridge

Cambridge residents are to benefit from the launch of an eco-friendly, space-age laundry and dry-cleaning service. 

Oxwash e-cargo bike and riders

Oxwash has opened its second lagoon at Ronald Rolph Court, from which it will offer its medical-grade laundry technology typically used in spaceship and hospital sterilisation. It follows the success of its first branch in Oxford, and an investment of £1.4m earlier this year.

Founded by former NASA engineer Kyle Grant, Oxwash combines ozone disinfection with thermal and biodegradable chemical processes to achieve greater than pharmaceutical-grade disinfection to eradicate bacterial, fungal, and viral agents in customers' items.

Customers can hire Oxwash’s concierge service, which uses electric-cargo bikes adapted with portable ozone generators to collect items to be cleaned at the Cambridge lagoon. Items are delivered back to owners in a no-contact drop off using dissolvable laundry bags. Customers also have the option of a self-drop off and collection service.

Using its innovative technology, Oxwash can save up to 25litres of water per wash and prevent 100million plastic microfibres from going into the world’s oceans. Current customers of Oxwash include the NHS and Oxford Vaccine Trial, with Oxwash having offered a coronavirus (COVID-19) disinfection service.

CEO Grant said: “The laundry industry is broken. Wild amounts of fresh water, energy and chemicals are used and it is simply not sustainable. We’re developing processes to have zero net impact for the whole laundry process — from collection to washing and back to delivery again. Cambridge is incredibly advanced when it comes to cycling culture and infrastructure, and we are thrilled to be launching our second lagoon following the success of our Oxford HQ. We hope to be an active, positive part of the community and cannot wait to start washing Cambridge’s laundry sustainably.”

About Oxwash

Oxwash is re-engineering the laundry process from the ground up and to be the first truly sustainable, on-demand laundry company in the world. Founded by Kyle Grant, a former NASA engineer, Oxwash is developing processes to have zero net carbon emissions for the whole laundry process - from collection to washing and back to delivery.

Kyle Grant was recently selected for Forbes Europe’s 30 under 30.

 

 



Looking for something specific?