New York City Clothing Recycled
Updating Time:2008-9-4 13:48:15
By Paige Kollock
New York
02 September 2008
In New York City, residents, businesses, schools and other institutions generate roughly 21,000 tons of waste a day, or more than 7 million tons per year. About six percent of that annual waste is clothing, linens and other forms of textiles.

Adam Baruchowitz collects bins of clothes for recycling
Now, one company is helping to not only reduce that ever-growing pile of trash, but to make money off of it too. Paige Kollock reports.
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