We visited the Fabscrap warehouse to watch the operation in action.

I'm here at FabScrap and I'm going to find out what happens to all of the textile waste that comes from hundreds of brands in New York City. Fabcrap is a small fashion nonprofit in Brooklyn that resells and recycles leftover fabric. And they've saved millions of pounds of textiles from landfills.Walking in, the first thing I noticed was an enormous pile of black trash bags stacked up to the ceiling. The Fab Scrap staff call this Mount Everest. All of these bags are filled with pre-consumer textiles.Stuff li ...