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Earth Day '09 Textile Collection

Wearable Collections, a NY based clothing recycling company is reaching out to Universities
across the Northeast to join in an Earth Day clothing drive. We are looking for motivated
students, could be a club or fraternity/sorority, who wants to be leaders on campus, coordinating
and managing the drive. Once approved by the proper authorities on campus, Wearable
Collections will coordinate the drop o of a container on campus, some time during the rst
week of April 2009. The container can be placed out of the way, however it should be somewhat
accessible. The students can decorate the container to capture the spirit of the student
body. There ought to be a designated time, set by the managing organization, by which clothing
donations are accepted. If promoted properly, Wearable Collections believes that two
weeks is the proper amount of time to ensure a successful clothing drive. At the end of the
drive, conceivably Earth Day, April 19, 2009, Wearable Collections will send for the containers to
be collected. The containers will be brought to a sorting facility where the weight of the
collected clothing will be determined. Wearable Collections will dedicate 20% of the funds
raised from the sale of the clothes back to the participating clubs, fraternities, and/or sororities.
We believe the clothing drives will help educate students of the need to recycle textiles, which
in NYC alone takes up nearly 6% of our waste stream, while also giving them the opportunity to
raise funds for a given organization. We look forward to the opportunity to discuss this further
with anyone interested.
For more information please contact us at Info@wearablecollections.com or 646.515.4387

Wearable in the News

WEARABLE COLLECTIONS: Recycled Clothing Initiative

Wearable Collections, a non-profit charity initiative, is leading the crusade to reduce textile waste in a city traditionally known for disposable, seasonal styles. The organization is placing recycling bins in designated buildings throughout New York City for the collection of unwanted garments and clothing. With Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week having just come and gone here in NYC, we wanted to take a closer look at how one non-profit is aiding New Yorkers to have a cleaner, greener closet while helping others along the way.

According to the statistics presented on Wearable Collection’s website, 386 million pounds of textiles enter the NYC waste stream annually, representing close to 6% of total waste. The Council for Textile Recycling also reports that the clothing recycling industry prevents 2.5 billion pounds of post consumer textile waste from entering our landfills and waste stream each year. On a national basis this industry recycles approximately 10 pounds per capita or 1,250,000 tons of post-consumer textile waste annually. However, these 10 pounds represent less than 25 percent of the total post-consumer textile waste that is generated.

Effective recycling is an ongoing exercise in identifying hands-on and practical ways to make a difference in our communities. With this in mind, it is essential to find ways to encourage the general population to systematically recycle their unwanted clothes. Wearable Collections achieves this by having building residents register for textile recycling bins that are picked up once a week. These clothes are then distributed in a not-for-profit manner to charities worldwide. (There have been recent reports of charities distributing second hand clothes to South America, Africa, and Asia with middleman profit, but this is not the case here.)

We think that Wearable Collections is an excellent way for household members to carefully consider all of the disposables in their homes and not just the materials that we know to be conventional garbage. Many a landfill is lined with last season’s trends!

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