I’ve mentioned before that our New York team recently moved into a swanky new office space. The one downside to moving is that we have been forced to confront our dark, dark past. We’ve done terrible things at Idealist, namely: over-buying t-shirts.

We have so many t-shirts from events gone by. I have no idea how they survived multiple moves from office to office. We used to run an annual conference for 1,000 college students, and remnants included about 200 extra-large t-shirts, not to mention 100 canvas bags.

Since we’re obsessed with keeping our new space new-looking and clean, we finally had the motivation to deal with all these extras. But what exactly do you do with hundreds of extra large t-shirts with outdated logos and the years “2006″ and “2007″ emblazoned on them?

Option 1: You could dump them.

Option 2: You could engage in some textile recycling! All you have to do is take your old textiles to the southwest corner of Union Square where the friendly people from the Council on the Environment of New York City will take your clothes for recycling. They accept clothing on Mondays right there for the remainder of 2008.

Guess which one we chose?