Besides being a huge eyesore, nothing makes me madder than seeing usable clothing and household goods dumped in the environment. My mother always gave our used household goods to a family less fortunate than our family. We give our discarded clothing and household items to Goodwill.
In this economy, I am saddened to see such a waste. Hey, I could have used the plastic coat hangers.
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Since we donate all of our old usable clothes to Goodwill, I was pleased to read this news from Advertising Age about Levi’s promoting Goodwill Industries:
Levi’s, Goodwill Launch Clothing Recycling Push
‘Care Tag for Our Planet’ Encourages People to Donate Unwanted Apparel
Posted by Karen Egolf on 10.22.09 @ 05:18 PM
Levi Strauss & Co. and Goodwill are working together on a new initiative to save billions of pounds of unwanted clothes and put them to good use. In “A Care Tag for Our Planet,” the product care tags on Levi’s clothing in the U.S. will include messaging encouraging people to donate their unwanted clothing, with the project expanding to global [...]
Clean Up Bellevue Day This Saturday
The Bellevue Exchange Club will be sponsoring a clean up this Saturday, November 1 from 8 a.m. until noon. Some of the items accepted at the Bellevue Center campus will be large items, fluorescent tubes, CFL bulbs, household batteries and cell phones. There will be a shredder for confidential papers, and a Goodwill truck for useable items.
Volunteers will assemble for roadside clean up during the morning. The Bellevue Rotary Club, Bellevue Community Church and the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce are also assisting in the effort.
I will be participating and bringing some household batteries and fluorescent tubes for disposal.
Amazing Amount of Trash
This is a photo of trash in front of a house in a neighboring subdivision. I haven’t thrown away this much stuff this year:
I’m in shock at this pile of stuff. Why is there an upside down ironing board in the stack? Couldn’t that go to Goodwill? Plus, look at what could have been recycled!
Why Does Anything Become Trash?
Recently, I found this glove left behind at a construction site. If I had dropped the glove, I would have picked it up. I’m not sure why a glove was in the area in the summertime.
This week, there has been one shoe in the middle of Highway 70S in Bellevue. How does one lose one shoe in the middle of the road?
When we did our trash pickup during the Great American Clean Up, I found a pile of clothes. Because they were wet and had partially been hidden by ground cover, I removed as many as I could carry in my bag.
I see clothes a lot during my walks. Once [...]
Clothes are Sometimes Trash
No, not the kind Britney Spears wears. The kind I find on the street, like this:
I’ve always found clothes while I’m walking, running or cycling. The only thing I ever brought home was a Tennessee Titans baseball cap. It was quite new and held up perfectly after I washed it.
At first, I thought that the above clothing was tossed to the side, while moving a lawn or walking. When no one picked it up for a few days, I assumed it was just dumped. Please take unneeded clothes to Goodwill or cut them up and use as cleaning rags.
Don’t litter.