Textiles and shoes have become consumer goods in today’s society. People buy, wear and discard a whole variety of clothes as the seasons and fashions change. In fact, around 750,000 tonnes of old clothes are thrown away in Germany every single year. In most cases, people discard their old clothes because they no longer fit or quite simply because they’ve gone off them – not because they can’t be worn anymore. Which means, of course, that the majority of the discarded clothes are anything but waste. There are three major benefits to recycling such textiles.

Textile recycling schemes can have a positive social impact, if the chain of operations is transparent from beginning to end. We ensure this is the case by only working with established textile collection businesses. This assurance gives those donating their clothes peace of mind as they know their donations will be recycled correctly and fairly.