IICD Michigan Clothes Collection

08/06/2018

Learn about the devastating consequences of fast fashion to the environment! Buy less new, buy more reused and buy only what you really need!

05/06/2018

Amazing environmental solutions for our planet and its future! Please watch

04/18/2018

Recycle, upcycle, Reuse - Check out this shopping mall in Sweden where only Recycled items are sold! Very cool.

08/08/2017

https://www.volunteerforever.com/program_reviews_detail/owc

05/25/2017

One World Center Clothes Collection at the Michigan Recycling Conference in East Lansing this year. We had a booth and talked to alot of good people championing reuse and recycling in a state that needs to do better! (current recycling rate in the state is 15% - less than 1/2 of the national average of 34!) Lets mover forward with recycling and reuse in Michigan!

04/13/2017

Read about Michelle's report from Malawi and how your clothes donations are part of creating development!

My project’s name is DNS Pre-school in Chilangoma, Malawi. The project is about improving education in as many ways as possible: academic, nutrition, buildings, making gardens, installing water tanks, making education materials, building playgrounds and so on. It is about improving the quality of li...

03/26/2017

Volunteers at One World Center showing off their skills in becoming self sufficient!

03/21/2017

Kenya just banned all use and production of plastic bags! Indeed a great environmental act. Go Kenya! Could MI be next? ;)

02/08/2017

Recycle and re-use your clothes and shoes. This little video says it all!

10/24/2016

http://eepurl.com/ceOQBU

Visitors who stepped into fashion retailer H&M’s showroom in New York City on April 4, 2016, were confronted by a pile of cast-off clothing reaching to the ceiling. A T.S. Eliot quote stenciled on the wall (“In my end is my beginning”) gave the showroom the air of an art gallery or museum. In the ne...

09/08/2016

Very interesting article! A growing movement is shining a light on how clothes are made and used and discarded. Please be kind -reuse and recycle your clothes by dropping them in our blue clothing collection bins!

Ignorance is not always bliss. More often than not, we don't know where the things we purchase come from. We blindly buy clothes that are affordable, stylish, and reflect the latest breaking trends, without giving much thought to how they came to be. A "fash mob" (flash mob and fashion show) of loca...

05/26/2016

Enjoy the One World Center May newsletter and learn about how reusing and recycling your unwanted clothes and shoes at our blue bins support the One World Center programs in Brazil and Africa!