The Tyler, TX, Clothes Mentor location emphasizes the importance of recycling gently used fashion. Sell your second-hand items to Clothes Mentor and receive cash on the spot while minimizing clothing pollution. Let's all contribute to keeping clothes out of landfills and treat every day as Earth Day!
Perry (Newscaster)
All right, well, at least we’ll have a kind of a sunny Earth Day, that's today, and to celebrate, an East Texas clothing store is reminding people that selling their old clothes and buying second-hand can actually help the planet. KTK Corrine Benandi is live to tell us how Clothes Mentor is saving the earth one top at a time. Good Morning Corrine.
Corrine Benandi (Newscaster)
Good Morning, Perry, and happy Earth Day! Clothes Mentor has just launched their Stop Clothes Pollution education campaign, just in time for today's holiday. The upscale resale store is urging people to stop going out and buying new clothes and instead reuse and recycle current fashions; representatives tell us that when you throw away old clothes, they usually end up clogging a landfill somewhere. Experts say to produce one pair of jeans requires 75 lbs of carbon dioxide, and the EPA says these rising levels are hazardous to our health. 1 in 2 people are throwing unwanted clothes into the trash, which leads to 645 million garments produced each year, clogging our nation's landfills. At Clothes Mentor, instead of throwing out your old fashions, you can recycle them by selling the clothes. This is slowing down clothes pollution and is also giving you quick cash and someone else a new look.
Kathy Bossly (Owner)
If you go to the store and buy something and you only wear it one time and then say you're going to throw it away, there wasn't any use; it didn't spend any time being used before that happened, and then you’re just going to go by another one and another one that's just a lot more clothing that's not being used very much. How cool is it not only to get it used again but also to get some money for it as well? I mean, what a great idea.
Megan Riaz (Clothes Mentor Shopper)
I love shopping here. I think it's important that we recycle things. Then there's lots of clothing that people wear one time, and then they just say, oh, this doesn't fit me right, or they don't like the color on me, so why should go pay full price when I can just buy it here and help local were helping someone local in the community.
Corrine Benandi (Newscaster)
For owner Kathy Bossly, recycling is a lifelong passion of hers. She loves being a part of bringing that here to East Texas, watching other women do their part, and continuing the recycling cycle at her store. She says other ways to recycle and help the earth today are by doing things like turning off the water when you brush your teeth, staying away from styrofoam, and doing whatever you can to reduce your carbon footprint. Reporting live in Tyler Corrine Benandi KTK news.
