H&M do your civic duty and donate your cut-up clothes to local Swap-o-Ramas
- 07.01.2010
- Posted by Jonathan Firestone
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I just found out from @amalah and @finslippy that the New York Times is reporting that an H&M store in New York City is getting rid of perfectly good clothes by cutting them up and placing them in trash bags outside to be disposed of. Aside from the waste this creates, a ton of this scrap clothing could easily be re-purposed (if they absolutely must cut them up) by delivering them to Swap-O-Ramas, (where local artists and old clothes get together to be recycled and resold) and other similar community projects. Or better yet, make up for your corporate waste by HOSTING things like this and give back to the community you should be contributing to.
