[All] Recycling Textiles

[John Jackson]

We haven't determined a purpose yet - other than to keep them from going to the dump - and making the best use of used clothes. The purpose of the meeting would be to discuss what we would want to achieve.

John


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John Jackson
17 Major Street
Kitchener N2H 4R1
519-744-7503




> On Jun 30, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Caterina Lindman <caterina.lindman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If clothes are brought to the Goodwill (which is at Gate 2 at the Waterloo Region Landfill on Erb St.), are they either re-used or re-cycled?  That seems to be the indication from the Region of Waterloo website.  Sabine's slides seem to imply that Goodwill in London is only interested in clothes that can be re-used.
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> Is the purpose of Gren's project to encourage people to drop their clothes off at Goodwill if they cannot be re-used, and to donate them to Goodwill or another second-hand shop if they can be re-used?  
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> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, John Jackson <jjackson at web.ca <mailto:jjackson at web.ca>> wrote:
> I've had several requests for the presentation that Sabine Weber made on recycling textiles at our June GREN meeting. That presentation is now in two files on the GREN website at http://gren.ca/documents/ <http://gren.ca/documents/>
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> I also heard from some people who would like to develop this into a project for GREN to work on over the next year. If you have interest in exploring what we might do, let me know and I will set up a meeting (probably at my house) to pull together ideas. 
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> John
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