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At Goodwill®, Every Day Is Earth Day
Long before the first Earth Day in 1970, a Methodist minister in Boston, MA, Rev. Edgar J. Helms, pioneered the “reduce, reuse, repurpose” practice in 1902. He began what would become Goodwill Industries® by collecting used household goods and clothing, hiring those in need to mend and repair the clothes, and reusing the clothes for those who needed them