“My goal is to encourage hotels around the world to consistently donate all gently used bedding, towels and any other useable discards to the needy, including furniture and kitchenware, instead of shipping it to landfills.”
~ Mary Marzano
Oprah interviews Green Recoverings founder Mary Marzano about her inspiration for founding the organization and how you can help!
Check local listings for showtimes!
Green Recoverings, Inc. is a New Jersey nonprofit corporation with an application for 501(c)(3) status pending with the Internal Revenue Service.
This is great Mary. It is good to see what you are up to. It is a smart concept and it is good you are generating the media coverage to spread the word. Oprah, no less.
Keep up the good work.
Mary, I wish I could say my sheets were gently used…
You’re the best…
Art
This is great what you are doing. I would like to know if you have drop off locations in other cities.
I would love to volunteer also but I am not in your area. Please send me a list.
Thanks Atlanta, GA
We live in NJ are we will send you some comforters, sheets etc. Plesse advise how to do it.
Ronnye — it would be great if you called some shelters in your neighborhood and provided the bedding you have to them directly! Ask the shelters in your community to register on our site, so we have them in mind when we have more donations! Thanks.
Ms. Sylvia — The way that you can volunteer would be to call hotels and shelters in your community to get them involved. Simply ask the shelters what their needs are, and ask the hotels to meet them! Don’t forget to ask the hotels and shelters in your community to register on our site, so we have them in mind when we have more donations! Thanks.
I always wanted to make a difference in my community, being that the need is so wide spred,however this project will be the foundation of a new begining.
Thank You
Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.
Mary, I sent this out today and it was picked up and forward on by a couple of people. I will keep you updated on how it goes and when we do our first drop off in Chicago.
http://bit.ly/fAZsN
Keep up the good work!!
Calum
I saw the Oprah show and loved your idea. I am making a list of shelters to call to find out what their needs are. I would love to be able to correspond with you as I take on this new adventure as I’m sure I will have some questions in the process. Thanks for giving back and inspiring others to help.
Hello, can you please post some more information on this topic? I would like to read more.
I love the idea.I’ve been looking for a way to get my children involved in their community…Thanks for the push to get out and do it!!
Hi Mary,
It’s Marie Bryan I met you at the hospital were you had that beautiful little girl. We are trying to get our non profit organization on the move it slow because we’re new but it’s coming along. I just wanted you to know your story and mission was such an inspiration to me, keep up the great work. Please e-mail me or have one of your staff/volunteers e-mail me I have a question.
Thanks and God bless you in the work your doing.
HI MARY,
WHAT A GREAT JOB!! CONTINUE TO BE BLESSED AND BLESS OTHERS.
MARIE BRYAN
I just wanted to let you know that I read the article about your project in People magazine about a year ago……..I contacted about 5 local hotels in my area and asked them to donate used linens, etc……….I heard nothing.
So, this past Monday, I sent out a new batch of letters.
TODAY, I received a call from Candlewood Suites here in Washington, PA. Tammy, the head of housekeeping, gave me a big box of used linens, which are near perfect in my opinion……AND over 100 electric irons (apparently their hotel replaced all their existing irons with ones that had retractable cords).
This was a happy day for me! It was nice that I finally got a response from a hotel and the thought of doing something nice for some needy people has given me a warm feeling all day.
Thank you for sharing this very simple idea with the rest of us! I am a very busy mother with an “at home” business, but I can always find the time to do something for others.
May God Bless you and may God bless me as well……….I need all the blessings I can get.
I got my second hotel to sign on today. I am on a roll. Hampton Inn and Suites on Racetrack Road in Washington, PA called yesterday and are donating two big boxes today. I am picking them up around 8:30 AM. Thank you to Hampton Inn.
New here,
I’m here online for the kids of Haiti.
I’m doing this for a non-profit group in which the main focus is to
creating oppurtunities for the children in haiti. If anybody wants to help then this is the place:
[url=http://universallearningcentre.org]Donate to Haiti[/url] or Help Haiti
They give children in Haiti a positive learning environment.
Yes, they’re legitimate.
Any help would be great
Janey – Wonderful! We can add Hampton Inn to the list of generous, community minded and green focused hotels. Kudos to you!
God Blesses you Janey, you deserve it!
God bless you too Marie. I have been collecting donations for Haiti as well as some more shelters in the Newark area. Please let me know your question: marymarzano1@greenrecoverings.com.