Family Recycle Thrift Store
“Orange Thrifty”
Kobe

Website of “Orange Thrifty”, close to JR Rokkomichi station, Kobe. We handle clothing items mainly and shoes, bags, accessories, etc. Orange Thrifty is modeled on thrift store in the United States, intending to provide good clothing at reasonable prices in local market. In addition, we support fund-raising of “Animal Refuge Kansai” for animal rescue and “Shimin Kikin Kobe” for various activities for local community.

Thank you for your donation! - Sum Total: JPY 4942.042 as of July, 2011

Would you mind donating your clothes, bags or shoes you have kept at home but not used for along time to support animal protection activity or local volunteer activity?

Family Recycle Thrift Store "Orange Thrifty" Blog (Japanese)

Charity information page - Aim, System, Procedure, Flow of donated goods, etc.

Aim

"Orange Thrifty" is a privately owned thrift store. We carry out the activities to support animal rescuing and local NPO activities. Individual small donations have added up to a lot and the sum total of over 100 tons of used goods have been donated; more than 230 million yen have been funded as of April 2009.

(1) To reduce garbage so as to cut down the disposal cost borne by local community

(2) To decrease pollution by reducing incineration

(3) To have good items put on the local market at reasonable prices

(4) To assist fund raising for non-profit organization

Your donations will be greatly appreciated. (What can be donated? Click here for detail) We accept only drop offs at our store basically, however, if you could send your donation from a distant place with the shipping cost borne by yourself, we would be happy to receive them. (Click here for shipping address.) ↓ Drop offs at Orange Thrifty (Orange Thrifty receives your donations on behalf of NPO - "Animal Refuge Kansai", "Shimin Kikin Kobe") ↓ Orange Thrifty weighs your donations. A receipt will be issued to a donator. ↓ All donations will be bought by Orange Thrifty from NPO ("Animal Refuge Kansai", "Shimin Kikin Kobe") ↓ Orange Thrifty sells them at reasonable prices in local market. Orange Thrifty makes a payment to NPO. ↓ Reports detailed information about donations (who and how much) to NPO. ↓ ↓ Decrease in garbage Nice clothes at reasonable prices on market Fund-raising to NPO

Organization	Aim	Activity
	Animal Rescue	Click here - Charity for “Animal Refuge Kansai” Your donation of gently used clothes will help abandoned animals.
	Grant funding to NPO	Click here ? Charity for “Shimin Kikin Kobe” Your donation of gently used clothes will support local volunteer activities.

Items we can accept

Clothes	Cleaned or washed
Kimonos	Cleaned or washed
Shoes	Not damaged
Bags	Not damaged
Cloth	Large to some extent
Accessories	Not damaged
Non-used items	Non-used items
Book	Not damaged. Magazines and encyclopedias are not acceptable.
Towel	Non-used only
CD, DVD	Playable. With case or jacket only. DVD-ROM, CD-ROM and Game software are not acceptable.
Pet-accessory	Non-used only
Livingware	Livingware and other consumable goods. Non-used only
School uniform	Junior high / high scool, boys and girls. Other uniforms are not acceptable.
Others	Please contact us at (078) 858-7090

Items we cannot accept

Bedding, blankets, furniture, electric appliances, underwear

How to donate goods?

Drop offs	Please bring your donation items to Orange Thrify, Rokkomichi, Kobe. Please advise us which NPO your donations will contribute to, "Animal Refuge Kansai" or "Shimin Kikin Kobe". "Orange Thrifty" 3-1-208 Nagate-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-0027 TEL (078)858-7090 Hours: 11:00 - 20:00 Map
By post	Please send your donation items to the following address. The shipping cost will be borne by yourself. Please advise us which NPO your donations will contribute to, "Animal Refuge Kansai" or "Shimin Kikin Kobe". After our receipt of your donations, we will give you our receipt confirmation call. (Japanese) Please fill out your name, address, your phone number on the invoice / consignment note. (If your phone nember is not on the invoice, our confirmation call will not be made.) If you do not require our confirmation call, please state so. To: Orange Thrifty Address: 3-1-208 Nagate-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-0027 Tel: (078)858-7090
Other	Only in the case of removal from neighborhood and the donations in large quantity, we could visit your house to take over the donation items. Your proposal might be declined depending on volume, distance,etc., so please contact us first. Orange Thrifty Tel: (078)858-7090 (Japanese)

Basically we accept only drop offs at our store, but if you could send your donation from a distant place with the shipping cost borne by yourself, we would be happy to receive them. Thank you for your cooperation. Further information about our charity activities.

About 'Animal Refuge Kansai' and "Simin kikin Kobe"

Why recycling? - Most of used clothes are not recycled and simply become "garbage". The disposal cost of those "garbage" is a part of tax expenses, which implies that we (the tax payers) indirectly bear such cost! Nowadays a large proportion of clothes are made of chemical mixed fiber, therefore, it is very difficult for many local governments to incinerate them. Most are buried in the ground instead. Orange Thrifty has been tackling such problems in a positive way to contribute to society. You may read the article about fabrics recycling in newspaper in this website. Article about fabrics recycling.(Japanese) We started the charity activity in cooperation with "Shimin Kikin Kobe" in 2004 and sum total of over 40 tons of used clothes have been donated (as of April 2007). We select items which can be sold at our stores or exported overseas. That is how we make best use of the donated items. In addition, we have just cooperated with "Animal Refuge Kansai" to be of assistance to the activity of rescuing animals.Your donations will be a great help to support the activities.

Orange Thrifty
TEL（078）858-7090 (Japanese)

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