Textile Recycling Makes a Difference

Matthew J. Drat ’84, development and community relations manager at Home Sweet Home Ministries in Bloomington, shared the results of their textile recycling program on the IWU campus. Now in its third year, the program places collection containers at various locations where students, faculty and staff can drop off their textiles (clothing and more) to be re-purposed by Home Sweet Home’s HSHRenew program.

For this school year, HSHRenew at Home Sweet Home Ministries collected nearly 5,000 pounds of textiles on the campus of IWU. 

“That is a tremendous impact on the environment and on the men, women and children at Home Sweet Home,” Drat wrote. “For example, the resources generated can help pay for any entire day of meals at our soup kitchen, meals that affect not only the body, but the mind and spirit as well.”