{"id":9652,"date":"2018-11-28T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2018-11-25T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T22:22:22","slug":"2nd-hand-rose-of-needham-a-sustainable-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/2nd-hand-rose-of-needham-a-sustainable-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Hand Rose of Needham &#8211; Practicing the 3R&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2d-hand-rose-of-needham-pic1-e1539699579854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9667 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2d-hand-rose-of-needham-pic1-e1539699579854-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2d-hand-rose-of-needham-pic1-e1539699579854-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2d-hand-rose-of-needham-pic1-e1539699579854-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2d-hand-rose-of-needham-pic1-e1539699579854-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2d-hand-rose-of-needham-pic1-e1539699579854-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/2nd-hand-rose-of-needham.business.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2nd Hand Rose of Needham,<\/strong><\/a> a consignment store <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">located at\u00a0937 Great Plain Ave. <\/span>in downtown Needham, (open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm), operates under a sustainable business model:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By selling only used clothing on consignment, they practice all 3 &#8220;R&#8217;s&#8221;:\n<ul>\n<li>They <em><strong>Reduce<\/strong> <\/em>the demand for newly manufactured clothing, which is very resource intensive<\/li>\n<li>Customers who buy their merchandise <em><strong>Reuse<\/strong> <\/em>existing, but perfectly usable, clothing<\/li>\n<li>They <strong><em>Recycle<\/em> <\/strong>clothing that might otherwise be thrown away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the store has taken several additional actions <strong><em>to promote sustainability:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They encourage shoppers to either bring their own bags, or not take a bag when purchasing just a single item<\/li>\n<li>Clothing that does not sell is donated to the Needham Community Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s important that we <em><strong>all<\/strong> <\/em>try to live more <em><strong>sustainably<\/strong><\/em>, which includes practicing the 3&#8243;R&#8217;s.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s what our<em><strong> GO GREEN<\/strong> <\/em>Needham Campaign is all about &#8211; find out how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/gogreenneedham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participate.<\/a>\u00a0 Or follow us on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenneedham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/greenneedham\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#GOGREENNeedham<br \/>\n#ZeroWasteWednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2nd Hand Rose of Needham, a consignment store located at\u00a0937 Great Plain Ave. in downtown Needham, (open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm), operates under a sustainable business model: By selling only used clothing on consignment, they practice all 3 &#8220;R&#8217;s&#8221;: They Reduce the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":9667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}