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New York City Clothing Recycled


02 September 2008
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Adam Baruchowitz collects bins of clothes for recycling<br />
Adam Baruchowitz collects bins of clothes for recycling
In New York City, residents, businesses, schools and other institutions generate roughly 21,000 tons of waste a day, or more than 7 million tons per year.  About six percent of that annual waste is clothing, linens and other forms of textiles.

  Now, one company is helping to not only reduce that ever-growing pile of trash, but to make money off of it too. Paige Kollock reports.

 

 

 


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