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Virginia Pals Save Flowers From the Landfill, Redeploying Them to Bring Joy

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Repurposed peonies, ready for delivery in Harrisonburg – credit, Friendly City Florals
A pair of Virginians who found themselves habitually dismayed by the amount of floral waste they saw over a series of weddings and funerals decided to launch a small nonprofit to reuse them.

Friendly City Florals delivers flowers to hospice care homes, hospitals, and other events like funerals and weddings to make sure that the joy and special feeling a vibrant bouquet inspires can continue to do so as long as there is color in the petals.

The story begins when Rebecca Shelly, an experienced wedding industry worker, was cleaning up in the aftermath of a wedding reception in North Carolina last year, and was agonizing over stuffing hundreds of perfectly perky peonies into black garbage bags.

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Virginia Pals Save Flowers From the Landfill, Redeploying Them to Bring Joy

The pair now spend several days a week traveling to halls, houses, and venues to collect floral arrangements that would otherwise be thrown.
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