Dry Cleaning Goes Green at Causeway Cleaners

Causeway Cleaners in Dunedin specializes in giving the whole dry cleaning package in a environmentally safe way.

Causeway Cleaners offers dry cleaning, alteration, laundry and alteration and they do it all in a way that's safe for the environment. Steve Milby, owner of Causeway Cleaners switched over to the green system of cleaning a few years back. "I just wish I had done it a lot sooner," Milby said. In addition to the green processes, Causeway Cleaners tries to be the "Mom and Pop" dry cleaning location of Dunedin, Milby said. To learn more about the process at Causeway Cleaners, watch the video above. Related Coverage: Sign up for the free Dunedin Patch email newsletter to stay connected to your community.

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Kindness Returns to Dry Cleaner Offering Help to Unemployed

Owners at Causeway Cleaners hung a sign in the window offering free dry cleaning to people in need and received a surprising act of kindness in return.

The storefront of Steve and Peggy Milby's dry cleaning business blends into the landscape of strip malls and vacant lots off of Dunedin's Bayshore Boulevard.  With Florida's unemployment rate hovering around 8.1 percent, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the small business owners asked themselves what, if anything, could they do to help. Then, a sign. Three months ago, Steve Milby added a large white sign in the window of Causeway Cleaners, his 25-year business tucked snugly in the far corner of Causeway Plaza. It sticks out among a clutter of colorful stickers and miniature suction-cupped signs honoring his dogs, who've also worked there. The sign contains a heartening message in large, red capital letters: IF YOU ARE …

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