LOS ANGELES—The Green Garmento marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with a new partnership with Green Wish. Green Wish is a grassroots, nonprofit charitable organization focused on helping local green organizations fund projects for their communities through small donations at local retailers and online in “pay what you can” denominations.
Currently Green Wish, whose board of directors includes actress Sharon Lawrence, actor and noted environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr. and his wife Rachelle, funds organizations such as Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots (www.rootsandshoots.org), Organic Farming Research Foundation (www.ofrf.org), Friends of the Los Angeles River (www.folar.org), Santa Monica Baykeeper (www.smbaykeeper.org) and the Surfrider Foundation (www.surfrider.org).
To mark this occasion, The Green Garmento announced the release of a special edition Earth Day 40 bag, with 20 percent of every purchase going to support the efforts of Green Wish. According to Raphael Sbarge, the organization’s founder, “Green Wish is very excited to be working with The Green Garmento. Their commitment to finding a practical, creative and inexpensive way to make a real difference is the kind of solution that will make you feel good immediately. The Green Garmento is also supporting local green charities by donating a portion of their sales as a further expression of their mission to save the planet, one Green Garmento at a time!”
The Green Garmento is an eco-friendly three-in-one reusable garment bag that aims to eliminate the use of single-use plastic drycleaning bags. At home it functions as a space-saving hamper; on the trip to the drycleaner, it becomes a stylish duffel bag; and at pickup, it transforms into a hanging garment bag to protect cleaned clothes. The simple step of switching to The Green Garmento will help to reduce the estimated 300 million pounds of single-use plastic drycleaning bags a year that continue to clog landfills and kill wildlife.
Go to The Green Garmento and Green Wish.
