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 »

Wearable Collections wants to thank Stonehenge Management for featuring us in their Autumn 2008 mailer to their residents Going Green.  We are very appreciative that they were the first management company to give Wearable’s their stamp of approval. We are currently in 6 of the Stonehenge buildings and are planning an expansion in the new year to several other buildings.

We are proud to announce our second greenmarket collection location. Following up on the success of our Grand Army Plaza collections every saturday in Park Slope, Wearable will now be collecting every monday at Union Sq.  We are located on the west side of the park near 16th st.  Come by and say Hi, or even donate some clothes. The collections are held in collaboration with the CENYC.

Hours of collections: 8am-6pm Mondays

We will be adding new locations in 2009 so keep checking for updates.

Both Parents and Children agree that Wearable Collections has stolen the hearts of  New Yorkers.

We want to thank all of the Park Slopians who braved the frigid weather to donate their textiles at the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket.The day was a success collecting nearly a ton of clothing.  Don’t worry! If you missed us this Saturday, we will be out there every weekend in collaboration with the CENYC.  We are located up the hill in the entrance to the park, not in the center of greenmarket territory.

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This video was captured for Voice of America News over the summer. We appreciated the time they spent with us and think they did a nice job of depicting our business.  We can’t blame them for not making us look prettier.

Thanks to the design work of our friends over at the Happy Corp, Wearable Collections now has some nifty new bin covers. These covers will be placed on bins in all our new locations and by request from any of our current locations.

You can easily check if your building is participating in the Wearable clothing recycling service by viewing this map.  If your building is not currently recycling clothes, please fill out the form on our homepage and we will try our best to accomodate you.

For those of you living near Prospect Park, you will now be able to donate clothing every Saturday at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket between 8am and 4pm. The collections will be held in partnership with The Council On The Environment of NYC, as part of their Second Chance Saturdays. .Wearable Collections accepts all used, clean clothing including shoes and hats. We also accept household items such as curtains, linens, towels, handbags and belts.  Whether you have a donation or just picking up some local produce, come by and say HI…We look forward to being part of this wonderful community.