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"If you&amp;#x27;re a true Slave to Fashion, a total trendoid, or the kind of girl who can&amp;#x27;t pass up an amazing bargain, like us, chances are your closet&amp;#x27;s inventory turns over pretty quickly. If you have a hard time reconciling your love of fast fashion with your carbon footprint, a new clothing recycling program starting up here in New York--and hopefully headed to other cities soon--may be just what you need. According to the Associated Press, &amp;quot;Starting in September, New York City will launch one of the largest textile recycling initiatives in the nation. The aim is to make it easy to donate clothing, almost as easy as throwing it away. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans pitch almost 10 pounds of socks, jeans, shirts and sheets per year, per person. In New York, where 190,000 tons of textiles entered the city&amp;#x27;s landfills in 2008 alone, the plan would place 50 collection bins in high-traffic areas.&amp;quot; The city is currently accepting bids from non-profit companies to maintain the bins, and Goodwill is reportedly one of the contenders. &amp;quot;A Goodwill Industries survey of 600 adults in the United States and Canada found that more than half of people who donate clothing say they wouldn&amp;#x27;t go more than 10 minutes out of their way to make a donation,&amp;quot; the article says. Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! I&amp;#x27;ve never actually thrown clothing in the garbage--I usually donate the nice stuff to Dress for Success and drag the rest about 15 blocks to a Salvation Army store near my apartment--but I&amp;#x27;ve seen loads of clothes in trash bins and on the streets of New York City over the years, so I&amp;#x27;m ecstatic that they&amp;#x27;ll finally find a better use (the AP reports that some of the clothes will be resold, while the unusable stuff will be made into rags or insulation). And this local program is just the beginning: &amp;quot;Officials say that if New York&amp;#x27;s campaign is successful, it could lead to a nationwide movement to recycle clothing.&amp;quot; Robert Lange, the director of the Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling in New York, says &amp;quot;If this is as effective as it can be, it will influence other locations,&amp;quot; Lange said. &amp;quot;We will be leading by example.&amp;quot; Pretty brilliant idea, right? If recycling your old clothes were as easy as tossing out your garbage, people would be pretty hard pressed not to do it, right? What do you ladies think of this new program? Are you hoping it comes to your city soon? How do you usually discard of your unwanted clothes? Share! PLUS! - Do you shop at Goodwill? - 15 sites that pay you to recycle, plus steals and deals! - Your style problems, solved: What should I do with this old fur coat? Photo: Thinkstock/photos.com Get more fashion news all day long--follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3});"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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