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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My understanding is that we want to get all forms
of textiles to not go to landfill where they lie useless for many years. All
forms of textiles can be re-used ,as there is a huge rag trade world wide for
cloth that is no longer useful in any other way. I believe Re-use is the first
best option, recycling it somehow would be the next best option. both of which
have many degrees of better or worse ways of using things. People forget that
textiles include so many things in a houshold (and in other areas too) -so its
not just clothing, its bedsheets, duvets, towels, curtains, furniture covers,
some type of (throw) rugs, so many things in our lives involve textiles. There
is a place in Georgetown called Wastewise that I visited about 15 years ago that
has an amazing textile recycling program- they had mountains of textiles. Maybe
we could visit there. Susan K. and I both know Kathy Barsoum who works for the
Region in Waste Management, and I could ask her if she knows much about this
topic and could meet with us. I am very interested in pursuing this issue
further. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Goodwill issue us tricky -apparently some of
them only want good quality clean re-usable clothing and other locations are not
so picky. But the Worth a Second Look/Green Door drop off location her in KW
takes all kinds of textiles in any condition- one example of re-use is that many
local Mennonite women make hooked rugs out of certain types of cloth not
suitable for other things...often men's suits oddly enough, due to the
durability.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Lori (Strothard)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jjackson@web.ca
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 30, 2017 10:09
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [All] Recycling
Textiles</DIV>
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<DIV>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.<BR><BR></DIV>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? <BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, John Jackson <SPAN
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target=_blank>jjackson@web.ca</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">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 <A href="http://gren.ca/documents/"
target=_blank>http://gren.ca/documents/</A>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV>
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