Goodwill collects donated clothing and household items from over 500,000 donors annually in eastern Massachusetts. These donations total over 21 million pounds diverted from local landfills each year. Donated items are sorted and processed at Goodwill centers before being sold in retail stores, with proceeds funding Goodwill job training and placement programs. Items not sold are baled and sold to other markets, achieving an 82% overall diversion rate from landfills.

1. Goodwill Textile Donations
Presented by Bill LaBelle
Director of Operations
Morgan Memorial Goodwill of Boston

2. Goodwill collects
clothing and household
items, saving them from
landfills
Recyclable materials
are sorted and sent
to become new
products Donated items are
sold in Goodwill
Retail Stores
Items not sold at
Outlet Stores are Items not sold
baled and sold go to Goodwill
after-market Outlets and “as
is” Stores for
sale

3. Morgan Memorial Goodwill 2011
Snapshot
 849,000 store shoppers
 543,000 donors
 21,721,000 pounds diverted
from local landfills;
10,861 TONS

4. How we do it
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 38 Donation Centers are located from Worcester
and all points east

5. Processing
 Donations are brought
to the Goodwill
Distribution Center for
processing and
inspection
 Items meeting Goodwill
quality standards are
sold in stores, items not
are sent for after-
market recycling

6. The “ideal” Textile
 Clean
 Dry
 Free of hazardous materials or waste
 **NOTE**
 Goodwill accepts items that are torn, have mild
stains (paint, grass, etc), linens, towels, wash
cloths, and everyday household textiles

7. The “not so ideal” Textile
 Items described as “RAGS”
 Items described as “SOILED”
 Items that are wet or have a strong odor
 **KEY POINT**
 If it isn’t a TV or a CRT there is a 99.99% chance
Goodwill accepts it!

8. 2011 After-Market = 82% diversion rate
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9. WHAT CAN A GOODWILL
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Raise your hand if you pay $65
per ton for trash removal……

10. ADC Report FY11 $65 per ton
Location FY11 Donations Daily Average % of total donations Program Revenue (Est) Total Tons Town trash savings Textile Tonnage "Other" Tonnage
Arlington 36,796 102 13.40% $876,480.72 735.92 $47,834.80 515.14 220.78
Boston 60,652 168 22.08% $1,444,730.64 1,213.04 $78,847.60 849.13 363.91
Concord 26,801 74 9.76% $638,399.82 536.02 $34,841.30 375.21 160.81
Lexington 39,055 108 14.22% $930,290.10 781.10 $50,771.50 546.77 234.33
Newton 30,967 86 11.27% $737,633.94 619.34 $40,257.10 433.54 185.80
Sudbury 22,002 61 8.01% $524,087.64 440.04 $28,602.60 308.03 132.01
Wellesley 18,091 50 6.59% $430,927.62 361.82 $23,518.30 253.27 108.55
Woburn 24,714 69 9.00% $588,687.48 494.28 $32,128.20 346.00 148.28
Reading 10,047 28 3.66% $239,319.54 200.94 $13,061.10 140.66 60.28
Norwood 2,285 25 0.83% $54,428.70 45.70 $2,970.50 31.99 13.71
N. Andover 3,261 12 1.19% $77,677.02 65.22 $4,239.30 45.65 19.57
SUMMARY 274,671 77 $646,498.62 543 $35,283.30 380 163
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