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John Yeckley, Waste Prevention Specialist— Snohomish County Solid Waste Management
“We are pleased to have this new recycling opportunity available in Snohomish County. Textile reuse and recycling has many benefits. Everyone wants good usable clothing to be passed on to those who can use it. This is an American family and cultural tradition. Retex’s program will help make this easier to do. Materials which cannot be reused can be recycled, which has many benefits to the environment, and prevents the needless filling of valuable landfill capacity. Recycling textiles also creates jobs.”
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T-shirt finds its way to Uganda. . . Gloria is wearing a Boys and Girls Club of Snohomish County T-Shirt. You may think there is nothing very surprising in that, but Gloria, 21, is not from Snohomish County. Read the full story in the Snohomish County Tribune, as writer By Kevin O'Connor disscribes the impact of clothing recycling in a September, 2006 article. The article will open in a new page. |
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Worn here, then there. . . MILL CREEK - Shirts, shoes and slacks worn around Snohomish County may show up halfway around the world one day, thanks to a local firm specializing in textile recycling. Retex Northwest Inc. is trying to increase the popularity of clothes recycling, a practice that's much more routine outside the U.S. Read the full story in the Everett Herald, as writer By Eric Fetters profiles our recycling efforts in a September, 2005 article. The article will open in a PDF format. |
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Keeping clothing out of landfill. . . Aluminum, paper, plastic, glass — the recycling of such goods is commonplace nowadays, with residents and businesses separating them from the waste stream as a matter of practice. The same cannot be said for clothing, however. Snohomish County Business Journal Assistant Editor Kimberly Hilden reported on Retex Northwest in its December, 2005 edition.
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Back to School Shopping with Retex Northwest. . . Check out these facts: This season, parents are expected to spend an average of $443.77 on back-to-school shopping with more than $200 devoted to new clothes for their kids. Only 53.3% of parents will have their kids wear old clothes from last year. Most of the rest of the old clothes will wind up in the trash contributing to the more than 9 million tons of textiles thrown away in the U.S. each year. Treehugger, which calls itself "the largest, most frequented green lifestyle blog on the net," has praised Retex Northwest for it's recycling efforts. |
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