By Cathy Licciardi
A local church has opened a shed to begin collecting clothing and other gently used items.
Word of Life Covenant Church located at 1308 Phenix Ave. Cranston, RI has teamed up with St. Pauly Textile Inc., a used clothing collection company that was founded 20 years ago in Rochester NY and is an A+ rated member of the Better Business Bureau. The company works with non-profit organizations to set up used clothing drop off sheds designed to give community members a clean, attractive, and well-monitored place to donate gently used textile items, which are then distributed both here in the U.S. and worldwide to people who need them.
Accepted items include clothing, shoes, sneakers, belts, purses, blankets, sheets, drapes, linens, pillowcases and stuffed animals. Donors are asked to donate items in a plastic bag to protect against dirt and the elements. There is a small box on the shed that contains receipts to help donors take a tax deduction.
St. Pauly Textile, Inc. collects over 80,000 pounds of clothing every day and estimates that this clothing ends up in 44 different countries (including the United States) yearly. In 2015, the company was able to help keep over 15 million articles of clothing out of landfills.
For more information visit www.stpaulytextile.com
