Brooklyn has close to a third of the city’s 1,009 clothing and textile drop-off sites, according to data released by the Department of Sanitation through NYC OpenData.
These sites offer an alternative to throwing out unwanted clothing and textiles, which New Yorkers do by the tons, throwing out 200,000 tons each year according to the drop-off program’s webpage.
Following Brooklyn, which has 30.4 percent of the drop-off sites in the city, Queens has 25.8 percent (307 and 260 respectively). Staten Island has the lowest number of drop-off locations with 81 sites.
Top photo by Nicole Allen Viana.
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