Furniture fabric discards find good use

ORLANDO, Fla.-Furniture industry fabrics that may have once gone to a landfill are finding a better use at the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital here.  Quilts produced from discarded industry fabrics were first delivered to young patients three weeks ago through the Green Initiative for Furniture and Textiles, or GIFFT, program.  The furniture fabric quilt program was created by SWIFT, the Sample Waste Initiative for Furniture and Textiles, and by Houston-based recycling company Avangard Innovative and Yardley, Pa.-based charity Quilts for Kids.  More>>