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Clothing Recycling Comes To The Big Apple

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July 6th, 2010 by Castina

Tagged as: Fashion

Beginning this September, New York City residents will be able to drop off their old clothes for recycling at various bins around the nation’s largest city.

The new recycling program includes placing 50 clothing bins in some of New York’s most heavily-trafficked neighborhood in hopes to eliminate the 190,000+ tons of textiles that ends up in state landfills each year. The program is being sponsored by Wearable Collections, an organizatin that has been offering free bins to apartment buildings and dorm rooms throughout the East Coast for the last few years. The company’s employees collect the bins as often as once a week and tenants never have to go farther than their lobby to get rid of old clothing.

If all goes well in the City That Never Sleeps, the program could go nationwide as early as next year.





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