Clothing Collections

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FIND A WEARABLE COLLECTIONS CLOTHING DROP-OFF

What happens to materials donated?
Clothing & Textiles are accepted by Wearable Collections staff and taken to a facility where they are sorted into different grades, with an effort to recover as much usable clothing as possible for distribution to second-hand markets.  Material that is not suitable for reuse will go to recycling markets to be used as wiping rags or shredded for low grade fiber products such as insulation. 

What Wearable Collections Accepts:
Accepted: Clean and dry clothing, paired shoes, linens, handbags, belts, and other reusable textiles.
Not accepted: fabric rolls or scraps of any size, rugs, carpeting, pillows, comforters, or luggage.

Why can’t I recycle scraps?
Due to a shift in market conditions, Wearable Collections is unable to accept large volumes of scraps for processing. Your quality donations ensure the sustainability of the textile recycling program, which recovers the portion of non-reusable material for secondary uses.  

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7.3 Million lbs Collected Since 2007

The average New Yorker tosses 46 pounds of clothing and other textiles in the trash each year. All told, NYC residents discard nearly 200,000 tons of textiles every year, at a cost to taxpayers and our environment.

Textiles can be dropped off weekly at the following locations. 


In cases of severe weather, markets may close early or be cancelled. 
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BOROUGH GREENMARKET DAY TIME
Brooklyn Carroll Gardens Greenmarket
Smith b/t 1st & 2nd Pl
Sundays 8am-1:30pm
Brooklyn Ft. Greene Greenmarket
Myrtle Ave & Washington Park

Saturdays

8am-1:30pm
Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket
Flatbush Ave & Prospect Park W (Prospect Park entrance)
Saturdays 8am-2pm
Brooklyn McCarren Park Greenmarket
Union Ave and Driggs
Saturdays  8:30am-1pm
Manhattan 77th/79th Street Greenmarket
77th St btw. Columbus Ave & Central Park West
Sundays 9am-12pm
Manhattan Columbia University Greenmarket
Broadway & 116th St
Sundays 9am-12pm
Manhattan Tompkins Square Greenmarket
E 7th St & Ave A
Sundays 9am-1pm
Queens Sunnyside Greenmarket
Skillman Ave b/t 42nd &
43rd Sts
Saturdays 9:30am-12:30pm

Every year, GrowNYC holds our Annual Spring Plant Sale in order to provide community groups with affordable perennial and annual flowering plants, herbs, ground covers, and vegetables grown by Greenmarket farmers and sold in wholesale quantities.