In 2018, fab_scrap, a non-profit organization, saved around 243,175 pounds of fabric waste from landfills. Here, one Vogue writer does her part to help.
Life inside the Brooklyn Army Terminal is quiet. WWII-era train tracks sit dormant, covered in uncut grass and moss. A glass ceiling muffles noise from the outside. There are people working and chatting at lunchtime, but mostly time feels frozen inside the 500,000-square-foot manufacturing building on the edge of Sunset Park., a non-profit organization that sorts and resells textile waste from over 350 New York City clothing labels, designers, furniture companies, and costume studios.
Sue and I rode the creaky elevator up to the Fabscrap headquarters and finally made it. Inside, several people stood at tables sifting through garbage bags filled with strips, scraps, and yards of fabric, some were pulling out old shirts, pants, and dresses too. A top-40 pop radio station played as a giant metal fan struggled to cool down the room.
Her colleague, Fascrap’s Community Coordinator Anne Keating, explained that they “get about 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of fabric per week from various companies around New York.” Fabscrap charges these companies a small, tax-deductible pickup fee and provides extra bags at every pickup. There are two types of bags: brown for general waste and black for proprietary fabrics, which the brand has denoted cannot be resold or reused.
Once Keating was done showing us the process, I began to dig into by black trash bag and started to pull out what was mostly home textile samples, all of which were marked with the type of fabric and percentages. It was therapeutic cutting the fabric swatches from their paper holders and tossing them into their respective bins. The room felt like a community even after just a few minutes of cutting and stripping and tossing.
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