Biggest Collection by a School District in 2012 – Hopewell Valley Regional School District

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Adam

We want to congratulate our friends over at Hopewell Valley Regional School District in New Jersey for once again leading the way in clothing collections.    The team at Hopewell Valley has proven that they are green machine by collecting 13,745 lbs of textiles over the course of several days in early November.  Despite all the destruction and damage that Superstorm Sandy wreaked on our area just a week earlier, Hopewell Valley was able to engage their community in a highly successful way.   Wearable Collections salutes you and all your accomplishments and are thankful to have partners like you. We hope to bring the model of collection that Hopewell Valley has established and bring it to many other school districts in the future.

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Long before Al Gore made it fashionable to be eco-friendly, a group of friends living in NYC came up with the idea for Wearable Collections. We must admit that we had ulterior motives for starting a clothing recycling company.

In November of 2000, one of our partners, Ethan Ruby was struck by a car while crossing Delancey St. in lower Manhattan, leaving him paralyzed from his chest down. This event drastically affected all of our lives. Ethan being a conduit of positive energy, would not let the group wallow in pity. He took a leadership role by becoming the president of the NYC chapter of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, one of the leading spinal cord injury research facilities in America. We found ourselves constantly brainstorming ideas for fundraising. Being NYC residents ourselves, we were overwhelmed with the amount of waste produced in our city and figured there must be some valuable goods being tossed away daily.

After seeing one of our neighbor’s bags of clothing waiting to be picked up for collection, sitting in the hallway for over a week, a light bulb went off. What if we could bring the convenience that New Yorkers demand to clothing recycling? By placing bins within apartment buildings, residents can now recycle clothing as easy as they can recycle cans and newspapers. Not only are we able to divert textiles from landfills, we are able to raise money for charitable organizations. We believe that this is a winning formula and are proud to be among the businesses making NYC a leader of the Green revolution.

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