Ever since we’ve moved to Brooklyn 3 years ago, there’s been a cardboard box living on our bedroom floor. It remained unpacked and filled with stuff to go to the Salvation Army someday. Yesterday, it finally happened.

On Sunday, we dropped off about 40 lbs of our old stuff – used clothes, jackets, hats, ski pants and other assorted textiles that we had hanging around the house. The recycling program, run by the Council on the Environment of New York City, has drop-off stops at various farmers markets around New York for the remainder of the spring and summer. If you have a bunch of old stuff hanging around your house, I highly recommend taking it over to one of the drop-off points. If your clothes, sheets, towels, and other textiles are in good shape, they’ll go to help those in need. If not, they will be recycled, as opposed to ending up in the landfill if you just threw them out. And you can get a tax deduction for your donations.

Find more information about the clothing and textile recycling program in New York here.

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