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Tuckered out togs? - Give’em away |
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Recupex is asking Sherbrooke area residents to drop off their used pants and other haggard hand-me-downs during the 12th annual l’Estrie met ses culottes clothing drive this weekend.
The local non-profit will collect thousands of pounds of tuckered-out togs and outdated outfits to be re-used and recycled.
Since 1997, Recupex has given new life to some 19 million pounds of old clothes.
Some of the garments and other garb will recycled and turned into marketable products such as purses, vests and slippers and sold at the group’s Boutique TAFI on Wellington Street in downtown Sherbrooke. Careworn clothes will be also sent to dozens of affordable clothing counters and to the developing world.
Threadbare things, torn toggery, even moth-eaten mats which cannot be re-used will be collected and sent to be recycled into fibers to make assorted felt products.
The goal of the organization is twofold. Not only will the donated duds help the needy, but recycling and re-using cast-me-offs will prevent tonnes of used clothes from clogging up local landfills.
Every year hundreds of residents drop off the vestiges of their vestures at the parking lot of Montcalm secondary school in Sherbrooke.
You can drop off you old clothes Saturday between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
May 7, 2008 |
Montreal Canadiens
