The City of Markham, Ont., for example, has a collection of more than 200 bins for residents to drop off old fabric items to be donated to partners for reuse. Items that can’t be re-worn are turned into industrial rags, furniture padding, insulation and more. Colchester County, N.S....
companies operate on what is called a “closed loop” model, a process that uses innovation to eradicate waste by turning it into a resource, through regenerating and recycling, to create new items.
but the Original Cast didn’t seem to worry too much. Don’t fuss with adding trim to a utility cotton to hide a removed tuck. Just press it out as best you can, and use it as an example of the recycling/upcycling mindset so common in the 19th century. It’s not a flaw, it’...