Beginning January 3, 2009, the Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC) is expanding its extrememly succussful textile and clothing recycling project to additional Greenmarket locations.
This expansion complements the “Material Mondays” textile collection program begun in June 2007 at the Union Square Greenmarket, and the “Second Chance Saturdays” textile collection program established at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket in January 2008. Collections at the Greenmarket locations have already diverted over 250,000 pounds of unwanted clothing and other textiles from landfills and incinerators. In order to accomplish this expansion and provide the public with new opportunties to recycle old textiles, CENYC is partnering with Wearable Collections, a NYC-based textile recycling company which will also continue our existing two programs . The donation of these items helps support CENYC’s environmental and greening programs. Read the rest of this entry »











