| New Wear for Worn-Out Clothes
How or where can I recycle clothes that are too old or worn out for Goodwill? —Tim Cheplick, Perrineville, N.J. Just because that old shirt you used to love is too threadbare to wear anymore doesn’t mean it has to end up in a landfill. "Consumers don’t understand that there’s a place for their old clothing even if something is missing a button or torn," says Jana Hawley, a professor of textile and apparel management at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "Ninety-nine percent of used textiles are recyclable." Non-profits like Goodwill and the Salvation Army play a crucial role in keeping old clothes out of the waste stream. When they get donations of clothes that are too threadbare to re-sell in one of their shops, they send them to rag sorters that specialize in recycling pieces of fabric large and small.
Camp Guide 2008
There are dozens of summer camp choices for your kids; from theater and art camps, to beading camps and choral camps, to sports camps and special needs camps. Here is a guide. By Star Tribune staff Last update: March 24, 2008 - 12:06 PM .
Native artists depend on ash trees
West Michigan's Native American community has good reason to worry about the Emerald Ash Borer, the invasive species that is killing Michigan's ash trees. To indigenous artists who create black ash baskets, the end of the trees could mean the end of a craft that has been passed from generation to generation. "Since the discovery of the EAB in Michigan in 2002, Michigan has lost over 20 million ash trees and the numbers continue to rise," said Kelly Church, of Hopkins. Church, along with her daughter, Cherish Parrish, and basket weaver John Pigeon are nationally recognized Native American artists. All three learned basketry from their elders and are passing their knowledge to a younger generation. Church and Parrish show and sell their work at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in Washington, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the IAIA Museum in Santa Fe.
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