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Trashy fashion.


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The show's nine designers sift through mounds of paper, mylar, bottle caps and other materials at Waste Management Recycle America's material recovery facility (MRF MRF Markov Random Field
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) in Port of Newark in New Jersey and incorporate their finds into a dress for an episode titled "Waste Not, Want Not."

Based in Houston, Waste Management Recycle America (WMRA WMRA Washington Midget Racing Association
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) operates 70 MRFs that handle 5.8 million tons of secondary commodities per year. The WMRA facility at the Port of Newark is a commercial MRF.

"WM [has released] an updated advertising campaign in early September that continues the environmental protection messages from last year's campaign," says Matthew Coz, vice president of WMRA's Eastern division. "One of the new ads features a recycling message, so this opportunity presented another platform to educate viewers on recycling. This is an influential show targeted at people who have an impact in our culture through fashion design."

Waste Management purchased the dresses from the episode and will use them to raise money in the communities that the designers call home.

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Publication:Recycling Today
Date:Nov 1, 2006
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