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Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

USED CLOTHING COLLECTION,

REUSE &

RECYCLING &

IMPACT

2008

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

1.  How many pounds of clothing, shoes and textiles does each person in the USA throw out each year? A. 39 lb B. 68 lb C. 94 lb

2. How many percent of the discarded clothing, shoes and textiles are collected and recycled? A. 15% B. 27% C. 36%

3. How many gallons of water are saved by recycling 50,000 tons of clothing? A. 103 billion B. 147 million C. 845,000

4. How much CO2 is not released in to the atmosphere by recycling 50,000 tons of clothing? Equivalent to taking X cars of the road for one year: A. 234 cars B. 156,680 cars C. 22,803 cars

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

How many pounds of clothing, shoes and textiles do you think that each person in the USA discard of during a year?

A. 39 pounds

B. 68 pounds

C. 94 pounds

68 pounds

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

The US population, discard

11.8 million tons of clothing, shoes and textiles per year (according EPA).

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

With a per ton cost of $83, it would cost our cities and towns $980 million (or just about $1 billion) to transport, landfill and incinerate all the discarded clothing.

Luckily, the nation is full of non-profits, churches and rag dealers who collect and recycle a large portion of the 11.8 million tons, right?

Well, that is not entirely correct!

Only 15.3% of the discarded textiles are recycled according to EPA

15.3%

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

BUT, due to the low recycling level of used clothing, our municipalities and tax payers pick up the rest of the tab; $830 million.

AND the negative environmental problem continues AND recoverable resources are being wasted!

This means that used clothing collectors like Planet Aid, Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. divert 1.8 million tons from the MSW and save the communities $149 million.

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Textile recovery is less developed than other recycling of other materials (2006 EPA Report):

Paper 52% Steel 36% Glass 22% Aluminum 21% Textiles 15% Plastic 7%

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

"   New York City discard 280,000 tons

"   Syracuse discard 25,000 tons

"   Buffalo discard 39,000 tons

"   Rochester discard 37,000 tons

"   Albany discard 31,000 tons

The citizens of New York State discard 645,000 tons of textiles annually:

According to NYC Department of Sanitation, textile, shoes, leather and upholstery constituted 8.1% of the annual MSW. DSNY Annual Report 2006 shows that the department collects approximately 3.9 million tons of MSW per year.

8,1%, which is clothing, etc. equals 316.000 tons.

DSNY’s number confirms that our estimated volume of 280,000 tons is conservative and not inflated.

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

"  12,000 collection boxes

"  14 locations in the USA

"  100 million pounds

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

100 million pounds = 50,000 tons

50,000 tons = 2,250 tractor trailers (53’ each)

2,250 tractor trailers = one trailer arriving and one trailer leaving a Planet Aid location every hour with 45,000 pounds of clothing collected from some of the 12,000 boxes we have.

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Clothing processed by Planet Aid is sold in more than 1,000 thrift stores in Guatemala.

Planet Aid supplies 5% of the market in Guatemala.

Approximately 8,000 people earn their living this way.

A total of 4,500 tons of used clothing is imported to Guatemala each month.

It means that 160,000 people in Guatemala work in the used clothing trade.

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Planet Aid sells clothing to a thrift store chain in Nova Scotia, Canada. 250 people have employment and income at that company and the predominantly blue collar population has access to inexpensive clothing.

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Employment Impact

administration 28site finders 15warehouse

workers28

truckers 79

truck drivers 23513

26,44827,244

2price broker & client liasion

Planet Aid

Others

Employment Created

Our CustomersLess- Developed Countries

Total

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Economic Impact in the USA

$35,000,000

$3,500,000

Economic Benefits to Americans

Multiplier effect: contributes to American economy

Taxpayers save through reduced trash collection

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Environmental Impact

103 bill ion gal. 3 .1 million

814,289 lbs.

261 million lbs. 22,803 cars

222 sq. miles

Reducing usage of pesticides

Reducing CO2 emissions

Reducing the need of land for cotton production

Environmental Benefits

Saving space in landfills

Saving water

50,000 tons

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But that is not all… From the collection and sales of 100 million pounds of used clothing Planet Aid generates a net profit of approximately $6 million.

The funds are used for development programs in Latin America, Africa and Asia. More than 2 million people are directly affected.

"   Teacher training

"   Child Aid and Economic Development in Communities

"   Fight HIV/AIDS

"   Food Production

"   Water Conservation

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

SUMMING UP

"   Collecting, reusing and recycling used clothing has a great economic and environmental impact on communities in the USA

"   Selling good quality used clothing for consumption in less affluent countries and communities has a positive impact on local economy

"   Combining the recycling business of collecting and distributing used clothing with a charitable mission is an excellent social, environmental and economic business model for community development (globally)

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Your next clothing- drop will

make a

difference.

Thank you for

Listening!

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

Please contact us to develop your socially and environmentally conscious textile recycling. Planet Aid, Inc. 1 Cross Street Holliston, MA 01746

Recycle Used Clothing for Development and Progress

1.  How many pounds of clothing, shoes and textiles deos each person in the USA throw out each year? A. 39 lb B. 68 lb C. 94 lb

2. How many percent of the discarded clothing, shoes and textiles are collected and recycled? A. 15% B. 27% C. 36%

3. How many gallons of water are saved by recycling 50,000 tons of clothing? A. 103 billion B. 147 million C. 845,000

4. How much CO2 is not released in to the atmosphere by recycling 50,000 tons of clothing? Equivalent to taking X cars of the road for one year: A. 234 cars B. 156,680 cars C. 22,803 cars