The Green Chair Project
We did a post last week about sharing with your neighbors. This week, we’ve found a different way that combines sharing with recycling and adds a touch of green, that we thought you might be interested in.
It’s called the Green Chair Project. From the looks of it, the project provides a way to get rid of gently used household furnishings with people who need or can’t afford those items. It sounds like a great idea. The City of Raleigh offers an appliance recycling program, but if the items are still working, the Green Chair Project sounds like it’s a better fit than the landfill or even a Craig’s List posting. It beats putting your old couch on the curb for pick-up and finds a good use for all the used college furniture that collects at the end of the semester.
Here’s some information directly from their website:
The Green Chair Project is a newly formed non-profit corporation created to be a donation receptacle for gently used household furnishings to be given back out to those in need throughout our community.
Nearly 80,000 residents (8.8%) of Wake County are living at or below the poverty level, unable to purchase even basic items for their homes.
Referrals from local social service agencies help identify those in need, such as mothers and children escaping domestic violence, disaster victims, formerly homeless regaining housing, those living with physical or mental disabilities, etc. It is our hope that we can give the disadvantaged a step-up to self sufficiency by helping make their living space a welcoming home.
According to the EPA, furniture accounts for over 9 million tons of waste in our landfills.
Through The Green Chair Project, the Raleigh community will have a meaningful way to recycle their donated furnishings directly in to the hands of those in need filling homes that would otherwise be without, rather than landfills.
Visit thegreenchair.org to donate and for more information.
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