We have a huge bag of shoes and boots for The North Face, where Soles4Souls will make good of them. H&M is one of the places where we take items that can’t be donated for wear, since the pieces don’t go to charity, but do stay out of the landfill. Turn on your JavaScript to view content* When we go to H&M, our purchases are usually three-to-one, Goose to me. Best Picks for Me and the Kid from Levi’s Since Levi’s has such great items for kids, I’m going double-duty on what I’d buy with my 20%-off coupon. The Official Info: Levi Strauss & Co.: Recycling & Reuse Goodwill receives your donation, sorts and sells the products, and then uses the funds for community-based services such as job training and placement. The Good: I:CO resells wearable items, and reuses, recycles, or upcycles the products. Levi’s will also donate $5 to Goodwill for every box shipped (it’s unclear from the website whether you receive a reward (other than the intrinsic reward of being generous) for your mailed donations). From home: Fill a box with clean, dry clothing or shoes, and affix a shipping label from /goodwill or /goodwill, then ship (for free) to the nearest Goodwill location. Levi’s® partners with I:Collect (I:CO), a solutions provider for reuse and recycling of apparel, textiles, and shoes. The Dish: In-Store: Drop off unwanted clothes or shoes (any brand), and receive a voucher for 20 percent off a single, regular-priced Levi’s® item. Turn on your JavaScript to view content *Since the $10 from The North Face goes only toward items of $100 or more (and I’m practical), I’m looking toward higher-priced items we’ll need in fall and winter. The Official Info: Responsibly Ann Give Back Box It’s Always Easy to Find My Loves from LOFT The Good: Goodwill receives your donation, sorts and sells the products, and then uses the funds for community-based services such as job training and placement. The Dish: ANN INC., has partnered with Goodwill to provide clothing and household accessories recycling for free using the Give Back Box. When you make an online purchase, you’ll be prompted to print a free donation shipping label, or you can go to the website and request one. The Brands: Ann Taylor, LOFT or Lou & Grey So, if you’ve been holding on to your throwaways from spring cleaning, a #konmari session, or because you had to make room for your Memorial Day Sales purchases, we hope you’ll refer to the guide below for tangible rewards and to avoid adding more waste to our landfills. Therefore, we decided to do a smidgen of digging, and let our readers know which retailers make it really easy to transform your couture into charity, and prevent unnecessary waste. I had known about H&M’s garment collection program, and about Madewell’s denim recycling program, but not about this super-simple LOFT perk. BOOM! I’ll have a box when my dress arrives, I’ll have a label already printed, and I’ll make darn sure I have some gently used items to send to the Goodwill in East Vestal, New York (apparently). Could they have made it any easier? I said yes, entered my address or my zip code (can’t remember exactly which), and voila, a shipping label to print popped up on my screen. I was super surprised-and delighted-after I made my purchase, when LOFT offered to send me a shipping label, so that I could reuse my box to mail any used clothing I needed to get rid of to a charity-super slick, LOFT!- And thank you. So, Saturday morning, while doing a little of both with the Memorial Day Sales posts-an exercise that led to a phone call notifying me that my credit card had been locked (thanks for the great picks, Friends!)-I discovered an extra perk after buying this sweet Tiered Halter Dress from Loft (on sale at the time for 40% off). It’s both a blessing and a curse that as editor I get to review most of the posts, and as a newbie on The Mom Edit team, I’m also doing my fair share of studying all things TME.
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