New York to implement clothing recycling program

In Singapore where we are so stuck on whats new and trendy (not such a great trend in itself) there would be a great use for an idea like this! Someone please stand up and do this, you can count me in!

Starting in September, New York City will launch one of the largest textile recycling initiatives in the nation. The aim is to make it easy to donate clothing, almost as easy as throwing it away.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans pitch almost 10 pounds of socks, jeans, shirts and sheets per year, per person. In New York, where 190,000 tons of textiles entered the city’s landfills in 2008 alone, the plan would place 50 collection bins in high-traffic areas.

via Yahoo! News.

Re-purpose your old sweater: turn it into a scarf

Haik Avanian makes his mother unpick your knitwear and knits them into something else at Reknit (rekn.it – a pretty cool URL which made us think it was an Italian site).

From the site, it looks as if the items his mother knits changes periodically – this month, it’s sweaters to scarves. You send her sweaters and she sends you back a scarf made from the sweater, that is. A reknitting fee of $30 applies.