About Us

Located near the historic Orange Circle and Chapman University, Greenway Cleaners has been serving Orange County since 2009. We offer same day delivery service with the speed, quality and competitive pricing you deserve. With over 28 years of experience in the industry we know how to get the job done.  We are passionate about the environment and make sure our methods are responsible and ethical. We truly clean your clothes the GREEN way!

How dry cleaning was created

Like many inventions, dry cleaning came about by accident. In 1855, Jean Baptiste Jolly, a French dye-works owner, noticed that his table cloth became cleaner after his maid accidentally overturned a kerosene lamp on it. Operating through his dye-works company, Jolly offered a new service and called it "dry cleaning." Early dry cleaners used a variety of solvents, including gasoline and kerosene, to clean clothes and fabrics.

In the United States, the dry-cleaning industry is fairly new and has developed only during the past 75 years. Since World War II ended, the volatile synthetic solvents carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethylene gave way to a product known as perchloroethylene (perc). Perc was later found to be very harmful to the environment. As a result, a more environmentally friendly solvent known as hydrocarbon took its place. Perc is now banned in California with all use to be ended by 2023.

Ever since we opened in 2009, GREENway Cleaners has been using hydrocarbon - getting ahead of the majority of the industry that is still using Perc. We have been GREEN from the start and we don’t plan on changing now.