PODS® Announces Partnership with Community Recycling Kids

CLEARWATER, Fla. - July 30, 2013 - PRLog -- (CLEARWATER, Fla.) – July 30, 2013 – PODS® Enterprises Inc., a national leader in the moving and storage industry, is joining forces with Community Recycling Kids (CR Kids), a for-profit recycler of clothing and related textiles.

For the last seven months, PODS has been actively working with CR Kids and has delivered 14 PODS containers to schools across the mid-Atlantic region. This past April and May, nearly 130,000 pounds of recycled materials were collected for reuse in the reliable PODS containers.

“Our alliance with Community Recycling Kids will help spread the important message of recycling and reusing, while helping children who are less fortunate at the same time,” said John B. Koch, President and CEO of PODS Enterprises, Inc. “We are excited to help this cause by using our PODS containers to help collect as many donations as possible.”

The collaborative efforts between PODS and CR Kids will connect the dots between unwanted items and the people that need affordable options. The clothing and accessories that have been collected will be distributed for resale and reuse in various U.S. locations and around the developing world. Over 70 percent of the global population is dependent on second hand goods, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“As an environmentally-friendly solution, the affiliation between PODS and CR Kids will help bring maximum visibility to school children everywhere who are looking to collect for reuse and connect with diverse cultures where their things are destined to land,” said Lisa Pomerantz, vice president of marketing and development for Community Recycling. “We thank PODS for their generous support in helping us with our outreach for the ’Reuse Movement’ and the impact such small actions can have in our world today.”

In 2014, PODS plans to continue with the CR Kids clothing collection program by contributing PODS containers to 500 schools.

About PODS Enterprises, Inc.
Founded in 1998, PODS currently provides moving and storage services to a population of more than 250 million consumers and businesses, in 48 U.S. states, Canada, Australia and the UK, through its company-owned and independent franchise network. To date, the PODS network has completed more than 400,000 long-distance relocations, exceeded 2.0 million deliveries and has over 145,000 PODS® containers in service.

About Community Recycling    
Community Recycling is proud to be a for-profit textile recycler with a focus on REUSE. They have flipped the recycling triangle upside down and have mastered the most powerful ‘R,’ REUSE, with more than 98 percent of the goods collected destined for REUSE here and around the world. Engaging people in the communities where they live is essential to making the recycling process as convenient as possible. Community Recycling is effectively diverting millions of pounds of clothing, shoes and other secondhand things from landfills, generating new revenue streams for municipalities, townships, boroughs, commercial retail locations, schools, charities, thrifts; and fueling local economies by creating jobs both here and in emerging countries. Visit us at www.communityrecycling.biz for more information and please join us as one of our People Recycling for People.
CR Kids is designed specifically for K-5. Instead of holding a school clothing drive, Community Recycling has developed fully integrated educational activities to support REUSE, engage, teach and entertain, allowing kids to learn about diverse cultures around the globe where their clothes will go. This environmental service project promotes sustainability, geography, social studies, language, and art and includes a global mapping project that adds depth to the act of collection for reuse. The more clothes, bags, belts and shoes collected in the PODS Container, the more funds and rewards schools can earn. Classrooms here in the US can connect with classrooms around the globe, rethinking ‘local’ by literally bringing communities’ closer via Community Recycling’s collaboration with Skype In the Classroom. To date, in addition to the pounds collected, CR Kids has connected one schoolroom in Northeast Philadelphia to an Elementary School in Tunisia. CR Kids is working to fulfill the mission of making the world a smaller, friendlier and greener place to live.