This weekend, the Greenmarket collection booth brought in about 1400 lbs of clothing and textiles.

We’d like to congratulate the Jackson Heights community for coming together so cohesively, and we’d also like to thank whoever out there is spreading the word so well!!

Wearables will start working to promote our message in as many of the languages of the JH neighborhood as we can.  Multi-lingual coordination volunteers would be greatly appreciated!! If you or anyone you know is interested, write us at caitlin@wearablecollections.com.

What a great turnout!!

Thanks all!

-Wearables

Huffington Post recognizes our fearless leader!!!  Hooray for Adam!!!

Coming soon to an area near you!!!

Here is the schedule for May. Check back for updates every week:

May 14 Cathedral School
May 21, Saturday, 10AM to 5PM on W. 103rd St between Riverside and West End Ave
May 15 Riverdale YMCA     click to download PDF flyer
May 27 PS276 Battery Park

If you don’t see a nearby location on this list, please call (646) 515-4387 or email info@wearablecollections.com. We can work with you to coordinate a drive or a permanent collection service at your residential building, school, community center, or place of business. We have options for everyone, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

We love the poster series created by GrowNYC!  These posters can be printed out and placed on your community board or even emailed to friends. We especially like the ones they created for our joint textile collections at the greenmarkets.

Having recently passed the 1 million lbs collected at the greenmarkets mark, we need to set our goals higher. Perhaps 10 million lbs collected would be enough to fill Yankee Stadium.

Wearables can accept almost any type of textile you can imagine- but we currently cannot recycle carpeting. Luck has it that there are some other great recycling companies operating around NYC….

Carpetcycle of Elizabeth NJ can accept used carpet and padding.  Truck/drag your carpet off to these guys and keep it out of a landfill. Check out their drop off page before you go to make sure they can manage your deposit.

Check out these other NYC WasteLess TV Campaigns.
We’ve come a long way with recycling in NYC– and some of these spots led the way.

Also, from GrowNYC, here a number of e-recycling Events in May:

Electronics Recycling Collection & Swap
Saturday, May 7, 12pm-3pm at the Build It Green! Block Party
(rain or shine)
3-17 26th Ave, Astoria [directions/map]

Electronics Recycling with the Lower East Side Ecology Center

• Sat, 5/7, 10am-4pm, Stanton Street b/t Bowery and Chrystie St
• Sat, 5/14, 10am-4pm, Penn South Houses, West 26th St b/t 8th and 9th Aves
• Sat, 5/21, 10am-4pm, Stuyvesant Town 14th St Loop (enter at 14th & Ave A)

Electronics Recycling at the Chapel of First Unitarian Church
Saturday, May 14, 10am-4pm and Sunday, May 15, 12pm-2pm Pierrepont St. b/t Clinton and Monroe, Brooklyn Heights

If you’ve considered recycling your clothes, you have probably thought about how textiles are made. Logically then, you’ve also pondered fabric metaphors for…. family, community, government, the universe, and even highway driving.

The Textile Arts Center, a gallery and workspace in Park Slope, may not answer any of life’s confounding mysteries… But its diverse offering of textile arts history, equipment, and contemporary artwork make it a truly amazing place to get down to earth a bit.

The Center’s new show, Play, open May 13 – June 24, will showcase many contemporary textile interpretations of the term “play”, and kicks off a number of high quality, affordable workshops for gallery-goers.

Also, they offer a MENDING CIRCLE with full use of the facilities on the first Thursday of every month.

To schedule year-end pickups at your school or university, contact Wearable Collections ASAP: (646) 515-4387 or info@wearablecollections.com . There is no distance we can’t travel but keep in mind we must get enough clothes to cover the cost of freight. We can work with you to figure out what the weight would be from your area.  Last year we helped clean out over 30 universities. We are hoping to double that number this year!


Our collection service is completely free of cost, and…

your school receives five cents per pound!

Clothes and textiles are heavy, so that can add up quickly!!!

On May 24, Wearable Collections will be participating in a lunch hosted by NRDC’s NY Council about Greening the Fashion Industry. If you are interested in purchasing tickets to this event visit www.nrdc.org/nycouncillunch2011.