Author Topic: Disposing of shirts? (Read 2437 times)

farmboygraphics · « **on:** December 30, 2020, 03:05:16 PM »

Is there anyplace to send shirts where they won't end up directly in a landfill? I have a few cases of misprints, rejects and test prints I've gathered over the years.

mooseman · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2020, 06:59:10 PM »

Salvation Army House of concern That is where I take my mistakes.
If I don't drop off any for a week or two they call to see if I am OK.....

mooseman

farmboygraphics · « **Reply #2 on:** December 31, 2020, 06:47:49 AM »

Quote from: mooseman on December 30, 2020, 06:59:10 PM

Salvation Army House of concern

Not an option. Lost a customer years ago because he saw some of his (misprinted) shirts on people who were not employees. So I've just held on to them for years, the reason I have so damn many now. Thought someone might shred them and use them as fabric fill for craft items?

mooseman · « **Reply #3 on:** December 31, 2020, 10:05:23 AM »

In my area there are drop boxes that collect such items for shipment to charities serving needs in poorer areas, mostly in South America.
Check with local church charities for similar opportunities.
100 years of test prints
we use a bunch of our mistakes that we do not want out as ink clean up on press. Only takes a couple seconds to wipe up ink the scraper misses from the tear down step.
We actually pull the tape , throw a shot of Beanie Doo onto the screen and wipe out with a shirt.
Saves a bunch of effort and GreenWay ink clean which is way more $ than Beanie Doo in the washout booth.

MooseGoldberg solution....
Get a hydraulic press and a 4 inch pipe of some length.
Add some saw dust and bonding agent to the shirts compress them into a tee shirt / sawdust/ adhesive logt and burn them in your fire place......let me know if this works

mooseman

Homer · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2020, 02:26:12 PM »

you guys have misprints?..pfft..rookies....

we keep everything and use them for set ups, rags for oil changes, clean up spills.... I'd be pissed too if I saw someone wearing my shirt getting tanked at the local suds dispenser.....

BRGtshirts · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2021, 08:16:16 PM »

Our misprints either:

a) get cut up into shop rags or

b) get donated offshore. We don't give them away locally for same reason as above (customers seeing their misprinted goods around town is real bad for business!) . We've made connections with some local charities over the years where they take them to donate offshore.

GoWestRob · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2021, 12:44:09 PM »

Try Deliveringgood.com

We've donated shirts through them before, they will take the shirts and guarantee they get used in whatever manner outside of the USA. However, you've gotta pay shipping to get the boxes out. contact them through their site and they'll be in touch with the process and the tax forms.

farmboygraphics · « **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2021, 01:20:46 PM »

Quote from: GoWestRob on January 04, 2021, 12:44:09 PM

Try Deliveringgood.com

We've donated shirts through them before, they will take the shirts and guarantee they get used in whatever manner outside of the USA. However, you've gotta pay shipping to get the boxes out. contact them through their site and they'll be in touch with the process and the tax forms.

Thank you :-)

Croft · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2021, 02:26:43 PM »

rags or to Salvation Army , In my area there is a business similar to an autowrecker that will take anything and destroy it for recycling and give you a verified notice of destruction if needed.
Shirts we printed years ago for Shell were sent for destruction/recycling , in the past they had a pic taken of there promo in landfill that was used in a anti oil campaign , from there on nothing was aloud in a dumpster with out being destroyed t-shirts included .

GoWestRob · « **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2021, 03:45:34 PM »

URL mistake, try this one instead -

http://www.delivering-good.org/

UltraSeps · « **Reply #10 on:** January 21, 2021, 02:08:37 PM »

Salvation Army? I have a story on that organization.

I amassed at least 50 cases of unsold fire department and ems event t-shirts such such as Fire Expo 2002, Maryland State FD Convention 1999, Firehouse Expo Baltimore 2003, stuff like that. All brand new Gildan 2000's with nice designs. At least 2,500 shirts. So, I figured I'd donate them to a good cause. This was around 15 years ago.

I called the Salvation Army. The two guys who arrived looked at them and said "not interested"! Told me they'd consider taking them if not printed. WTF? I couldn't believe it. Left a bad taste in my mouth for the Salvation Army.

BP · « **Reply #11 on:** January 21, 2021, 02:24:27 PM »

Every year I go thru the shop and get any and all shirts I don't need or want and then give my local homeless shelter and call and they come and pick up!

balloonguy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 21, 2021, 03:58:08 PM »

I wait until there is a natural disaster. I get advance permission from clients to donate. I have never had one say no...
In the case of non payment (only once in the last 4 years) I find the ugliest, meanest, dirtiest homeless people near the business and give them away.

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