Charity Program Encourages Manufacturers to Recycle Fabric
January 14, 2009
HIGH POINT, North Carolina – The Green Initiative for the Furniture and Textile Industry (GIFFT), has put a call out for manufacturers to donate 100 percent cotton fabric that they would otherwise discard.
The GIFFT program takes fabric from furniture and textile companies that would normally be filtered to a landfill and instead uses it for new products that go to needy and ill children. Quilts for Kids is one of the main charities that makes use of the fabrics, which come from suppliers like Sunbury Textiles. The fabrics are turned into such items as quilts and wheelchair bags.
The GIFFT program was created by the Sample Waste Initiative for Furniture and Textiles industries (SWIFT) and by Avangard Innovative and Quilts for Kids. If interested in participating in the GIFFT program, please contact Linda Arye at 215.295.5484.
The GIFFT program takes fabric from furniture and textile companies that would normally be filtered to a landfill and instead uses it for new products that go to needy and ill children. Quilts for Kids is one of the main charities that makes use of the fabrics, which come from suppliers like Sunbury Textiles. The fabrics are turned into such items as quilts and wheelchair bags.
The GIFFT program was created by the Sample Waste Initiative for Furniture and Textiles industries (SWIFT) and by Avangard Innovative and Quilts for Kids. If interested in participating in the GIFFT program, please contact Linda Arye at 215.295.5484.
