Support Your Community by Making Charitable Clothing Donations
A large percentage of clothing and textile waste ends up in United States’ landfills. The Council for Textile Recycling, for example, reported that this is the case for roughly 85% of the 25 billion pounds of new textiles created every year. According to research, 12 million tons of textile waste and clothing are thrown out on an annual basis. This amounts to the average American wasting 82 pounds of textiles. Rather than literally throwing clothing and household textiles away, they can be donated to charitable organizations.
A Brief Overview of Textile Recycling and Donating
As previously stated, billions of pounds of clothing and textiles find their way into this country’s landfills. Given this, textiles, many of which are reusable, have a poor recycling rate. Some experts have reported that these items actually have one of the poorest recycling rates of reusable materials.
Just 15% of used clothing is either recycled or donated. The Council for Textile Recycling
