Did you know
that Brooklyn has close to a third of the city's 1009 clothing and textile drop-off sites?! So says the Department of Sanitation via NYC OpenData.
These sites offer an alternative to throwing out unwanted clothing and textiles, which New Yorkers do a TON of. In fact, we throw out a whopping 200,000 tons of clothing each year according to the New York City clothing drop-off program's webpage. (If you’re curious: Brooklyn has 30.4 percent of all drop-off sites in the city, while Queens has 25.8 percent. Staten Island has the lowest number of drop-off locations with only 81 sites.) Go BK!
These sites are operated by nonprofit organizations and thrift stores or have publicly accessible donation bins registered with the city. Donation bins make up the majority of nearly 66 percent of these sites, and the rest are operated by nonprofits.
Donation bins are available at all times which means you can drop off clothing whenever you want. A spokesperson for the Department of Sanitation said that it is also the 10th anniversary of the ReFashion program, "which has recycled over 12,000 tons of textiles in its history."
And we think this is great news: Clothing swaps are expected to launch across all 59 community board districts this fall.
So.
Getting back to that stash of extra clothing you gotta purge: You can locate a drop-off bin near you by zooming in and checking out this here dandy map 👉🏼
for even more resources
on donating clothing and textiles
