Recycled Clothing Facts #2 Donate.Shop.Save.

April 15, 2015 by Pheona
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Recycled Clothing Facts by Lexa W. Lee, Demand Media Thrift shops are a great resource for donating or buying used clothing. Recycling unwanted clothing reduces landfill waste as well as the amount of resources needed to produce new clothing.  It also lessens the waste produced by the manufacturing process — clothing scraps end up in the landfill, too.  Used clothing can be donated, sold or disassembled for the fabric. #2 – Environmental Benefits There are multiple environmental benefits associated with recycling clothing. It reduces the Continue reading →

REUSE – the Best way to Recycle!

April 10, 2015 by Pheona
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Recycling Facts about Clothing that you probably haven’t heard before.  REUSING is the purest form of Recycling!  Have you ever discarded clothing because you didn’t like it any more?  Didn’t feel like making a trip to the thrift store to donate it? Perhaps, the following facts will change your mind the next time you’re thinking                                                                                                                                            about simply throwing clothing, towels, linens etc. away.                                                                                             To grow the fiber for;                                                        1 t-shirt needs 256.6 gallons of water,                                                        1 cotton diaper requires 105.3 gallons of Continue reading →

Recycled Clothing #1 DONATE Clothing

April 8, 2015 by Pheona
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Recycled Clothing Facts by Lexa W. Lee, Demand Media Thrift shops are a great resource for donating or buying used clothing. Recycling unwanted clothing reduces landfill waste as well as the amount of resources needed to produce new clothing. It also lessens the waste produced by the manufacturing process — clothing scraps end up in the landfill, too. Used clothing can be donated, sold or disassembled for the fabric. #1. Discarded Clothing Americans discard an estimated 65-68 pounds of clothing a year, while buying only Continue reading →

Thrift Store Fun: 5 Reasons to Shop at a Thrift Store

March 27, 2015 by Pheona
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Thrift Store Fun: 5 Reasons to Shop at a Thrift Store by Emilie Sennebogen For people who favor shopping malls and department stores, a Thrift Store may be a little scary.  After all, the clothing items are used and there’s no telling who wore them or what they were doing when they did so.  The fact is the clothes in thrift stores are all inspected to make sure they’re in good enough shape to go on the rack, so you don’t need to worry about threadbare Continue reading →