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New York City to Recycle Clothing, Shoes, Textiles Starting This Fall

By admin on July 9th, 2010

Clothes unsalvageable even for the Salvation Army?

This September, New York City will unveil one of the largest textile-recycling initiatives in the country. Its purpose: To make recycling unwanted threads as pain-free as pitching them in the garbage—no small feat, considering that a Goodwill Industries survey of 600 North American adults found that more than half wouldn’t travel more than 10 minutes to save their duds from the dumpster…

Read the original article at ecouterre

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