B.R.A. Recycling Program
Last month, some lucky Girl Scouts had the opportunity to meet entrepreneur and B.R.A. Founder, Kathleen Kirkwood. Ms. Kirkwood narrated the story of her career as model and an entrepreneur, painting a picture of what it took for her to get where she is today. She told the girls how she realized that while she could earn money being a model overseas, she was never going to be a "supermodel," and wanted to come back to the US to be near her family. Ms. Kirkwood's latest venture, B.R.A., the Bra Recycling Agency, involves recycling all the parts of a bra and then turning most of the waste into carpet padding. She explained some of the technical problems that she had to address in making the recycling of products involving fabric, steel and plastic doable. Girls learned a valuable lesson of resiliency and not taking the word “no” for an answer. Ms. Kirkwood also demonstrated that recycling costs money, a fact that is often hidden when w...