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Neighborhood Industries is a social enterprise. It takes a market-driven approach to business coupled with a non-profit mission to care for the environment and help people in need. It all starts with too much stuff. The company will pick up your used clothes, stained T-shirts, old rags, ripped jeans, electronics, broken vacuum cleaners, and even random wires. “We have routes that service Fresno specifically. But we also service about 320, 330 donation bins between Bakersfield and Sacramento,” says CEO Anthony Armor. Trucks even pick up things that other thrift stores can’t sell. And what makes Neighborhood Industries unique is very little of the second hand material ends up in a landfill. “We try to keep our waste under 5 percent,” says Armor. “That’s just garbage, that’s just stuff we can’t do anything with it.” So where does it all go? Some of it is sold at the Neighborhood Thrift store in the Tower District. And the rest? Well, it ends up in a vast warehouse just south of Roeding
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