A non-profit I am apart of is in their research stage of finding a location to open their “by the pound” clothing store. If you don’t know what that is, essentially you rummage through used clothing and buy it in bulk for a price per pound of clothing you have collected.

We are aware that this exists in LIC. We are also aware of the horrible things this corporation contributes to in textile waste that end up in our oceans and landfills of developing nations. That have polluted their water sources with extremely high levels of crude oil, natural gas, coal, and cellulose. All of which are what blended clothing fibers are made out of.

The non-profit is extremely motivated on keeping the clothing they receive inside the USA to better help sustain our planet. The exporting of used clothing is a major pandemic in Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, China, along with many other countries. Keeping our clothing in the hands of our community, instantly stops the feed into national trade.

The non-profit is also in the formulating stage of “bring back your clothes and receive $0.¢¢ per pound” in store credit.

Anyways. This long winded post is basically asking, would people, families, friends be interested in a thrift shop like this in Astoria, leaning Ditmars? Don’t tell us Williamsburg because we are ASTORIA proud 1,000,000%!

ADDIND: Thank you everyone that has interacted, really didn’t think it would have even gotten 10 upvotes. Keep those upvotes coming. I’m truthfully not karma fishing (wtf even is that?), the higher the number this is, the happier the board would be to listen to my rambling about how our community is easily the least serviced in the used clothing market; because don’t think for one second that they also aren’t hard leaning Greenpoint/Willamsburg 🤮! 🥰🥰🥰