It’s wonderful to see corporations in the fashion industry collaborating to come up with sustainable solutions that will benefit us all.

From their Web Site:
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition is an industry-wide group of leading apparel and footwear brands, retailers, manufacturers, non-governmental organizations, academic experts and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency working to reduce the environmental and social impacts of apparel and footwear products around the world.

Their aim is to successfully frame a pre-competitive, universal index to measure and benchmark sustainable practices and products for use by the entire apparel and footwear sector.

Big name corporate participants include: Adidas, ASICS, Duke Center for Sustainability and Commerce, Esprit, Esquel, Gap Inc., H&M, HanesBrands, JC Penney, Kohl’s Department Stores, Lenzing, Levi Strauss & Co., L.L.Bean, Inc., New Balance, Nike, Nordstrom, Otto Group, Patagonia, PUMA, REI, Target, Timberland, USA DuPont, Verité, Walmart, and many others.

Download the  School Signup Form <<<<<< CLICK HERE


Fill it out, fold it up, and send it to us like a post card.  You can also relay info via email.

5cents per lb benefit your school directly!

October

Concord Village Clothing Drive

195 Adams Street Brooklyn, NY 11201-1851 13

October:  10:00-16:00

GrowNYC Sponsored Clothing Drive @ Abingdon Square

Greenwich St @ Chambers 15

October · 11:00 – 16:00

Prospect Park South Clothing Collection Drive

1306 Albermarle Rd in Propect Park South on the corner of Argyle Rd

16 October · 12:00 – 15:00

Pratt Towers Fall Clean-Up Drive

Pratt Towers Community Room, 333 Lafayette Avenue (b/w Classon and Grand Avenues), Brooklyn to benefit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pratt-Towers-Playground/179128832102974

21 October · 10:00 – 13:00

John M. Harrigan PS 29 Clothing Drive

425 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 23

October · 10:00 – 16:00

Broadway Green Alliance Clothing Drive

Manhattan, Broadway Between 46th & 47th

26 October · 11:30 – 13:30

GrowNYC Sponsored Clothing Drive @ Parkchester

Westchester Ave & White Plains Rd Bronx, NY

28 October · 11:00 – 14:00

PS139 Clothing Drive

Ditmas Park, Brooklyn (On Rugby Rd near Cortelyou)

29 October · 10:00 – 16:00

November

GrowNYC Sponsored Clothing Drive @ New York Botanical Gardens

New York Botanical Gardens Mosholu Gate on Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY

02 November · 09:00 – 15:00

Hopewell Valley NJ Clothing Drive

Hopewell Valley Public Schools

08 November · 10:00 – 13:00

Staten Island JCC Clothing Drive

1466 Manor Road Staten Island, NY 13

November · 10:00 – 16:00

Don’t see your neighborhood represented here? Don’t fret. Write to us at: requests@wearablecollections.com. We can help find a solution. & Stay Tuned for Updates!!!

Recycling Loop-De-Loop at Union Square Greenmarket
Rescheduled due to the hurricane!
Saturday, October 15, 11am-3pm
17th St. b/t Broadway & Park Ave

The market will be abuzz with recycling activities for you! From 11am-3pm, repurpose an old t-shirt into a grocery bag for your local produce with Textile Arts Center, learn how to dye your bag with plants from the Greenmarket with Textile Lab and beef up your NYC recycling skills with OROE.

All three activities will take place at the Pavilion located in the North Plaza near 17th St and Union Sq. West. And, like every Saturday, you can bring fruit and veggie scraps to compost with the Lower East Side Ecology Center from 8a-5p and textiles to recycle with Wearable Collections (East side of the Greenmarket near 16th St).

Proud to be invited back for the third year in a row::::::::::

To Volunteer as a helper in the marathon, email us at requests@wearablecollections.com

YOXI, pronounced like “YO!!! SEE!!!”,  a new kind of social media site, provides social entrepreneurs with feedback and funding for their ideas through a matrix of public interactivity.  Top public contributors are rewarded for their sincere insights and top social entrepreneurs receive $upport for their ideas.  Kind of a win-win-win situation- because even bystanders will eventually benefit, too.

Wearable Collections’ founder, Adam Baruchowitz, was featured as a model social entrepreneur in YOXI’s most recent competition: Trim the Waste of Fashion.

We dig the mission of the winning team, Sea:Endless.

Thanks so much guys for featuring us! We were so thrilled to participate in such a cool effort! Keep us in the LOOP!

Electronic Waste Recycling Day at Tekserve
September 17, 2011 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
Tekserve, 119 West 23rd Street (between 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue), New York, NY 10011

Electronic Waste Recycling Day on the Lower East Side
September 18, 2011 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
Delancey Street between Chrystie and Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002

Electronic Waste Recycling Day at the Church of the Heavenly Rest (Upper East Side)
September 20, 2011 | 11:00am – 7:00pm
Church of the Heavenly Rest, 5th Avenue and East 90th Street, New York, NY 10128

Electronic Waste Recycling Day at Habana Outpost
September 24, 2011 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
Habana Outpost, Fulton Street between South Portland Avenue and South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Electronic Waste Recycling Day at St. John’s University
September 24, 2011 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
St. John’s University parking lot, enter at Gate 4, Union Tpke & 175th Street, Queens, NY 11439

Electronic Waste Recycling Day at the New York Hall of Science (Flushing)
September 25, 2011 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
NY Hall of Science visitor parking lot, enter at 111th Street & 49th Avenue, Flushing, Queens, 11368

Electronic Waste Recycling Day at Van Cortlandt Park
September 25, 2011 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
Van Cortlandt Park, Broadway between Manhattan College Parkway and Post Road, Bronx 10471

Thanks to GrowNYC and our other great partner Orgs, we are able to offer many additional collection events in the Falltime to areas we don’t already service regularly. Show your enthusiasm, and maybe we will be able to stage permanent collections at these sites!

Tucker Square Clothing Drive
10 September · 12:00 – 16:00
Tucker Square
Columbus Ave at 66th St.
New York, NY

Clothing Drive @ Tribeca Greenmarket
17 September · 11:00 – 16:00
Tribeca
Greenwich St @ Chambers
New York, NY

Clothing Drive @ 14th St. YMCA
18 September · 10:00 – 13:00
344 East 14th Street / New York, NY 10003 / (212) 780-0800
http://www.14streety.org/

One Day Clothing Drive at Peter Cooper Stuyvesant Town
18 September · 10:00 – 16:00

Clothing Drive @ Tribeca Greenmarket
24 September · 11:00 – 16:00
Tribeca
Greenwich St @ Chambers
New York, NY

NYClothing door-to-door charity clothing drive
door-to-door charity clothing drive
25 September · 08:00 – 18:00
http://www.nyclothingdrive.org/
Visit the site to schedule a home pickup. Donations accepted for convenience. Easiest way to clean house during the whole year! Help raise money for a good cause.

MANY MORE TO COME IN OCTOBER & NOVEMBER! CALL US TO SCHEDULE AN COLLECTION AT YOUR COMMUNITY CENTER OR OUTDOOR EVENT!

Hey all! If you have kids or friends at NYC schools, use this postcard to set up our EASY, ECOLOGICAL Fundraising initiative (click the bolded link to download PDF file):

Wearable Collections school 8×11 folder

5Cents per lb go directly back to the host school.

Schools can choose to have a permanent bin and collection service in place, or many opt for 1x or seasonal clothing drive collection services. Either way, the benefit is direct.

We already work with 50+ schools all over the city. Talk with your school admin or PTA to get started. We require only 15 minutes of setup time.

The tally is in for the first half of 2011.  We are very thankful for all the buildings participating in our program, helping us to achieve a company record for the first half of 2011, 650,000 lbs of clothing diverted from landfills.  While we appreciate everyone’s efforts, we would like to especially tip our cap to the following buildings for leading the way and making a huge difference in NYC.  For the second year in a row the title goes to 50 Murray St , well done! Here’s the rest of the top ten….

1 ) 50 Murray St – 5075 lbs

2 ) The Helena, 601 W 57th St – 4925 lbs

3 ) The Solaire, 20 River Terrace- 4812 lbs

4 ) 160 Riverside Blvd at Trump Place – 4450 lbs

5 ) The Verdesian, 211 North End Ave – 4112 lbs

6 ) The Renaissance , 130 Malcom X Blvd – 4075 lbs

7 ) 88 Leonard St – 3825 lbs

8 ) The Lincoln Guild, 303 W 66 st – 3762 lbs

9 ) The Bromley, 225 W 83rd St – 3637 lbs

10 ) 45 Fairview Ave – 3625 lbs

Special Mentions -

Top University

Stony Brook University – 23,000 lbs for the first half of 2011

Top one-day drive

Peter Cooper Village Stuy Town – 5000 lbs

Top Complex

Seward Park – 8500 lbs

Top School

PS 199 – 5850 lbs

It’s a long year so there is plenty of time to get your building on the list for the second half of 2011.

If your reading this list and don’t have the opportunity to recycle clothes in your building, please fill out this form, and we will hopefully get the program up and running shortly.