{"id":311,"date":"2014-05-27T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1984classnews\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-05-29T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:51:16","slug":"matthew-drat-textile-recycling-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2014\/05\/27\/matthew-drat-textile-recycling-makes-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Drat &#8217;84: Textile Recycling Makes a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"color: #000000\">Textile Recycling Makes a Difference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew J. Drat &#8217;84<span style=\"color: #000000\">, development and community relations manager at\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #23965a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hshministries.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Home Sweet Home Ministries<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0in 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&#8217;s HSHRenew program.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">For this school year, HSHRenew at Home Sweet Home Ministries\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000\">collected nearly 5,000 pounds of textiles<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0on the campus of IWU.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;That is a tremendous impact on the environment and on the men, women and children at Home Sweet Home,&#8221; Drat wrote. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textile Recycling Makes a Difference Matthew J. Drat &#8217;84, development and community relations manager at\u00a0Home Sweet Home Ministries\u00a0in Bloomington, shared the results of their textile recycling program on the IWU campus. Now in its third year, the program places collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2014\/05\/27\/matthew-drat-textile-recycling-makes-a-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}