Post-Covid, the charity sector is still trying to recover, so the team at Recycled Clothing Banks has come up with a few fresh ideas for raising much-needed funds. As we know, the charity sector is immensely diverse; some are tiny and entirely reliant on volunteers and trustees, while others run highly complex national or international
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Rather than your pre-loved textiles ending up in landfill there are a number of great ways to re-use them. Here at Recycled Clothing Banks we work with many different private and public organisations to help keep unwanted textiles out of landfill sites. We enjoy great relationships with local councils, educational settings, hospitality outlets, places of
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Why not start a community textiles recycling initiative to raise funds? Pre-loved – Re-claimed – Re-purposed – Upcycled – Salvaged – Regenerate – Recycle. Call it what you will, it all helps to keep our everyday items such as clothing, shoes and household textiles out of landfill where they will do more harm than good.
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But some fashion brands are adopting the ‘greenwashing’ approach. Despite the current cost of living crisis and the slow economic recovery from Covid, consumers are still shopping and buying fast fashion products. The textile industry has an extremely important role to play in helping to fight climate change but not enough is being done even
read moreWhen it comes to throwing away your old clothing, unless you recycle them, they will end up in landfill. Humans have been disposing of rubbish in the same way for thousands and thousands of years: dig a big hole and bury leftovers in the ground. Quite exciting for archaeologists, who centuries later, are finding ancient
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