Community Recycling, Montgomery County, MD: People Recycling For People

Community Recycling, a for-profit recycler of clothing with a focus on reuse is giving a big thumbs up to Montgomery County, Maryland (1 million strong) residents for their commitment to recycle clothing! Residents throughout the region are encouraged to think about all of the extra clothing, linens, shoes and accessories such as belts and purses that they have around the house and find the most convenient way to recycle for them!

Back in April of this year, Community Recycling won the bid for the county and placed containers, which are served multiple times a week at the Shady Grove Transfer Station in Derwood, Maryland. The goal is to far surpass the 109 tons of textiles captured at the transfer station alone the previous year. In less than five months, they have already captured over 120,000 pounds of reusable and re-wearable.

In August, Community Recycling partnered with Mid-Atlantic Petroleum Properties, LLC. to place clothing recycling bins at twenty of their retail service stations that are located throughout the county. You can find Community Recycling bins that are constantly serviced and maintained at many Sunoco and W Express stations.  They are clean, white, and say, ‘Join the Reuse Movement’ so you cannot miss them!

Community Recycling has been working tirelessly to promote REUSE and create a movement of People Recycling for People. They have even come up with CR Home, an at-home solution where you can box all of your gently used jeans, shoes, towels, purses and belts, etc. and ship them for free to Community Recycling.

“We are always looking for ways to customize solutions for every type of community in order to capture this much needed material,” said Ira Baseman, President of Community Recycling. “Whether we have containers at transfer stations, bins located at the places people go, or offer the convenience and ease of mailing it to us from your home, we are happy to connect your community to our community via the act of clothing recycling.”

 

“Less clothing in the trash translates to meaningful savings on trash disposal for communities, said Lisa Pomerantz, VP of Marketing and Business Development. “Take it a step further and see the importance of reuse on our global population, jobs creation, the resources saved and we have win-win-win!”

 

 

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ABOUT COMMUNITY RECYCLING

Community Recycling is proud to be a for-profit textile recycler with a focus on REUSE. They have flipped the recycling triangle upside down and have mastered the most powerful ‘R,’ REUSE, with more than 98% of the goods collected destined for REUSE here and around the world. Engaging people in the communities where they live is essential to making the recycling process as convenient as possible. Community Recycling is effectively diverting millions of pounds of clothing, shoes and other secondhand things from landfills, generating new revenue streams for municipalities, townships, boroughs, commercial retail locations, schools, charities, thrifts; and fueling local economies by creating jobs both here and in emerging countries. Visit us at www.communityrecycling.biz for more information and please join us as one of our People Recycling for People.