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Every year the city of Spokane produces about 30,000 tons of textile waste: threadbare T-shirts, worn-out bed sheets, shrunken sweaters and much more.
What’s not donated to thrift stores (even there, only a fraction finds a new home) but gets tossed in the garbage can is either incinerated at the Waste to Energy plant or trucked to a landfill. Many of these textiles, however — even those pieces that may seem destined for disposal — might have a second life as mittens, bags or something else.
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