With a number of exciting projects underway leading up to the winter season, Our Social Fabric is on the hunt for a large warehouse space to store our textiles and act as a workspace for project development and execution.
Because our mandate is to provide employment and social reintegration opportunities for residents of Vancouver's Downtown East Side community through textile recycling, the ideal location for the Our Social Fabric warehouse would be situated within this region.
As we move ahead in our search, we ask that if you have any leads on a ~2,000 s.f. space that you send us an email and help us find a home for our organization.
There are many more developments to come, but our first step is finding an appropriate location to work from.
Stay tuned for more details, and send an email to oursocialfabric.vancouver[at]gmail[dot]com if you are aware of any suitable workspaces for us to move into!
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Why Textiles?
Textiles are one the most common household items and represent a staggering proportion of the solid wastestream: approximately 16kg per person, or a total of 33,600 tonnes in Metro Vancouver in 2006, to give you an idea.
Despite the volume of this waste, few options exist to reuse or recycle salvageable textile items - and next to none for those items that can not be resold. As a result, these textiles end their still-functional lives in the landfill or waste-to-energy incinerator.
Our Social Fabric believes that this unnecessary waste can be not only be avoided, but channeled to create positive change in Vancouver's most impoverished neighbourhood. Aside from the obvious benefits of reducing the waste we are diverting to landfills and waste-to-energy facilities, textile recycling can have a direct impact on the socio-economic viability of the downtown east side. Jobs are needed now, and our goal is to recycle donated and salvaged textiles into new products, from clothing to utility products.
We invite Metro Vancouver residents to get involved by donating their textiles, time, or resources to this innovative initiative. Witness and take part in the birth and growth of this unique venture, which not only benefits the environment but the economy and all citizens of our community.
Despite the volume of this waste, few options exist to reuse or recycle salvageable textile items - and next to none for those items that can not be resold. As a result, these textiles end their still-functional lives in the landfill or waste-to-energy incinerator.
Our Social Fabric believes that this unnecessary waste can be not only be avoided, but channeled to create positive change in Vancouver's most impoverished neighbourhood. Aside from the obvious benefits of reducing the waste we are diverting to landfills and waste-to-energy facilities, textile recycling can have a direct impact on the socio-economic viability of the downtown east side. Jobs are needed now, and our goal is to recycle donated and salvaged textiles into new products, from clothing to utility products.
We invite Metro Vancouver residents to get involved by donating their textiles, time, or resources to this innovative initiative. Witness and take part in the birth and growth of this unique venture, which not only benefits the environment but the economy and all citizens of our community.
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