New York City To Launch Clothing Recycling Program With Goodwill

Yay! This is great news! (via PSFK)

New York City will launch one of the largest clothing recycling programs in the country starting this September. Under this program, around fifty collection bins will be placed in strategic locations around the city for people to conveniently donate clothing and shoes of any shape or state. The recycling program will be a big step towards a more sustainable urban ecosystem for the city, which witnessed over 190,000 tons of textiles dumped into its landfills in 2008. Some of the biggest names in non-profits including Goodwill Industries International and Wearable Collections are bidding to host the collection bins. Officials behind this recycling initiative say that if successful, it will influence other cities to undertake such programs.

Join Five Boroughs Clothing Swap Meetup Group

There is a new meetup in town, 5BCS! Led by Loren Silber,  she will be hosting swaps my swaps (approximately 6 times a year) and will notify members of every swap she can find happening in the 5 boroughs.  I will posting news of Loren’s swaps on this blog. The next one will be in August.

Weardrobe

Share and tag your style on Weardrobe. I just met the founder Suzanne here at Jelly co-working here in Williamsburg. BTW, Don’t forget to come to the clothing swap next Sunday at Angels and Kings.

DC Goodwill Fashion Blog at Blogher Business

I am at the Blogher Business Conference and Em Hall is talking about DC Goodwill Fashion Blog. Check out the site to bid on items on eBay or if you are in DC go to the stores in the area. This is definitely GPD08.

OURThreads

OURThreads is a new fashion social networking site where members can trade clothes. I am going to sign up and see how it goes.

clipped from www.springwise.com Launched earlier this month, OURthreads facilitates the buying, selling and trading of clothes. Registered users begin by setting up a virtual “closet,” which serves as their home page. From there, they can proceed to display items for sale or look through other users’ closets for something to buy or trade. Users can link to their favourite closets, and they can also advertise on the site to bring more visitors to their own Creating a closet, buying, trading and listing items for sale are all free; sellers pay OURthreads a fee of 3.5 percent of the total selling price for anything they sell. Ads, meanwhile, are available in variably priced packages. Cofounder Pete Yonkman explains: “When we designed the concept we tried to create a community that would allow people to easily create value for the items they have, whether they designed them or they just don’t want to wear them any more.”