FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING ENERGY AND WATER USAGE IN AN INSTITUTIONAL LAUNDRY

Formulations, methods using such a formulation, and systems encompassing such formulations and methods for reducing energy and/or water usage in an institutional laundry is provided. Such formulations, methods and systems allow for textiles and fabrics to be effectively washed even at temperatures as low as 20 DEG C. A prewash formulation includes a surfactant enzyme booster with the surfactant enzyme booster having one but preferably more enzymes and one or more surfactants. The enzyme of the prewash formulation may include any one or more of a protease, a lipase, an amylase, a cellulase, a mannanase, a pectinase, a peroxidase, and a gluconase. A main wash formulation is used in a wash phase cycle of an institutional laundry where such a main wash formulation includes a bleach, bleach enhancer, a chelating agent, an anti-redeposition agent and/or a soil suspension agent, a surfactant, preferably a nonionic surfactant and an anionic surfactant, a solvent including an aqueous solvent and perhaps an organic sol