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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Great idea Susan- after we do more looking into
this whole situation, I think we could make it a really interesting event +
</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>hopefully raise awareness...maybe get a couple of
organizations that take donations to have displays etc. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For example 3 good ones in KW
are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><U>'The Green Door</U> ' - takes all types of
clothing,and footwear</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><U>'Worth a Second Look'</U> - takes drapes,
blankets, towels, rugs, fabrics on bolts + rolls, wools for knitting -helps
refugees, students, immigrants setting up house</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><U>" Thrift on Kent"</U> - take all kinds of
donations-extensive list on their website</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- all 3 are affiliated with The Working
Centre.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- maybe Value Village, and other mainstream
organizations..Goodwill, Salvation Army etc. and a Region of Waterloo
Waste Management Rep.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Lori</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=susankoswan@execulink.com
href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com">Susan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
href="mailto:all@gren.ca">'GREN >'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 09, 2017 8:50 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [All] Recycling
Textiles</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Yup
- hadn’t heard of fast fashion until my course in Sustainable Business
Management. There are a number of companies that use the ends of fabric rolls,
for example, that are collected in big warehouses. Tonle, in Cambodia I
believe, cuts from the biggest pieces, then puts the rest into strips that it
joins together and knits it into a garment. The final scraps are mixed
with rice and water to create their labels. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
think it would be really cool to have a fashion show with only repurposed
garments...maybe run it alongside that horrendous annual Total Woman’s
Show. We could set it as challenge to the fashion students at Conestoga
College to create them – and on “real” people’s bodies. Would be part of a
larger event to bring attention to the fabric waste in landfill etc and all
other related issues. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Susan
K <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US> All
[mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Caterina
Lindman<BR><B>Sent:</B> 9 July 2017 06:42<BR><B>To:</B> GREN
><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [All] Recycling
Textiles<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal>I watched a documentary on
Netflix called "The True Cost". It's about the fashion industry, and how
clothing has gone from something we buy sparingly and use until it is worn
out, to something that we buy much more often and treat as disposable.
The price we pay is not very high in monetary terms, but there are lots of
disadvantages - human rights abuses, where the labourers are subject to awful
working conditions, environmental issues, where the production uses a lot of
energy and chemical inputs, and disposal issues. Disposal in landfills
is problematic, and when the garments are brought back to the global south, it
can undermine the local production of clothing. In a very real sense,
the workers are treated as disposable.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal>We may want to think of our
goal in this effort as not only to reduce the amount of textiles that ends up
in our landfill, but to reduce the amount of textiles that are purchased in
our region. How can we accomplish that? Some ideas
are:<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>Educating people about the fashion industry "fast
fashion"<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>Educating people about the slow fashion movement -
fairly-traded, sustainable clothing.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>Helping people tidy their clothing wardrobe. I am
reading the book "The Life-changing magic of tidying up", and I tidied up my
clothes. (Here's an <A
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMtU14F7sHs">animated summary</A> of the
book). The beauty of this method is that you go through all your
clothing, and decide what to keep, based on your emotional relationship with
your clothes. You only keep what sparks joy. Clothes are folded so that
they are vertical, and you can see all the clothes in your drawer. While
this initial purge will increase the amount of clothing that is sold to thrift
stores or re-used elsewhere, what is left are clothes that you really
appreciate and value. This then opens you up to consuming fewer clothes
in the future, because you now appreciate and value what you own, and you will
ensure that new clothes are pieces that you will wear often and will be with
you for a long time. <o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Lorraine Grenier <<A
href="mailto:lyric55@hotmail.ca" target=_blank>lyric55@hotmail.ca</A>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The community is not aware that used clothing is one of the
number one major environmental hazards as are cig butts right up
there.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Shelters are a big cause of discarded clothes out into our
parks and public areas and then into the trash. I see bags of clothing
from shelters tossed into the park daily.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Lorraine<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #575757; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent from my
Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">-------- Original message
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">From: John Jackson <<A
href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca" target=_blank>jjackson@web.ca</A>>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Date: 2017-07-03 11:58 AM
(GMT-05:00) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">To: Caterina Lindman <<A
href="mailto:caterina.lindman@gmail.com"
target=_blank>caterina.lindman@gmail.com</A>> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Cc: "GREN >" <<A
href="mailto:all@gren.ca" target=_blank>all@gren.ca</A>>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Subject: Re: [All] Recycling
Textiles <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.
<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">John
Jackson<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">17
Major Street<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Kitchener
N2H 4R1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><A
href="tel:(519)%20744-7503"
target=_blank>519-744-7503</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>On Jun 30, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Caterina Lindman <<A
href="mailto:caterina.lindman@gmail.com"
target=_blank>caterina.lindman@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>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?
<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, John Jackson <<A
href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca" target=_blank>jjackson@web.ca</A>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>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>
<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">John
Jackson<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">17 Major
Street<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Kitchener N2H
4R1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><A
href="tel:(519)%20744-7503"
target=_blank>519-744-7503</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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