Where to Get Rid of Anything
Where to donate, recycle, and sell your castoffs so they do some good.
By Katie Arnold-Ratliff, Meredith Bryan and Arianna Davis
Illustration: Daniel Horowitz
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Ill-Fitting Jeans
Cotton from Blue to Green
is a national recycling campaign that organizes denim drives with universities and stores like Guess and Gap. Donated jeans are reduced to their natural state—i.e., cotton—treated with fire retardants, and reborn as cutting-edge eco-friendly insulation for communities in need, like the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
Published 02/28/2013
