{"id":2816,"date":"2015-03-20T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tomsprice.com\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2022-02-25T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:26:57","slug":"recycling-fabric-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomsprice.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/recycling-fabric-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Fabric Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may have guessed Toms-Price stores go through a lot of fabric samples. At least twice a year our furniture manufacturers supply us with additional samples of their new fabrics. Soon our racks are overloaded and it’s time to weed out the old discontinued fabrics. But what to do with them?<\/p>\n

That’s where recycling fabric samples comes in. Vanessa Howells, a Toms-Price office associate at our Old Orchard store, has taken up this special endeavor. Toms-Price stores were previously recycling fabric samples on a limited basis, but it has been a coordinated effort since March of 2014, thanks to Vanessa.<\/p>\n

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860 Lbs. given away<\/h3>\n

In 2014, Toms-Price gave away approximately 860 pounds of discontinued fabric swatches! What a great effort it has been, on the part of managers and employees at our stores, to offer interested individuals and organizations these fabrics to be re-purposed.\u00a0 With recycling fabric samples we avoid sending them into landfills.<\/p>\n

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Ways We Reuse Fabrics<\/h3>\n

Pre-schoolers use the fabrics for art projects. In Lincolnshire, a local church makes blankets and in Wheaton refugees relocated to the area are making purses to sell. For World Relief, the fabrics are used in sewing groups.<\/p>\n

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These are some of the non-profit organizations where our fabrics were distributed in 2014:<\/p>\n