Falcon Heights Recycling

Recycle Your Used Clothing

At the curb on regular recycling days, starting April 4, 2003

What kinds of items are accepted?
How do I prepare clothing and household linens for recycling?
What happens to the clothing?
Won't this hurt local charities?

Almost 4% of the trash in landfills in the United States isn't trash. It is clothing! These textiles are almost 100% reusable. Now you can divert textiles from waste to a longer useful life. Start a tradition of reusing and recycling your clothes!

What kinds of items are accepted?

Accepted	Not Accepted
All wearable clothes in good condition, including coats, hats and gloves Household linens good enough to use, including tablecloths, sheets, towels, curtains, blankets Shoes and boots	Wet or dirty clothes Rags or cloth scraps Household goods other than clothes and linens

How do I prepare clothing and household linens for recycling?

Basic Instructions:

Place clean, reusable clothes and household linens in clean plastic bags.
Seal or tie the bags closed.
Place the bags next to your recycling bins for regular pick-up on recycling days.

What happens to the clothing?

At EZ Recycling center the clothing and household linens are baled and tied with wire and picked up by U'SAgain. The clothing is sorted by quality and type in to many different categories.

U'SAgain sells approximately 48% of the clothing recovered as secondhand clothing, typically to developing countries. For example the cost of a pair of pants as well as the cost of transporting them to Africa is currently only 34 cents.

About 26% of the used textiles are processed into fiber and remade into recycled textile products. Another 20% are converted into wiping and polishing cloths.

Won't this hurt local charities?

85% of the clothing sold in the United States ends up in landfills! Only 15% is recycled now.

U'SAgain is targeting people who do not find it convenient or do not have enough time to contribute their clothing to charities like The Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries.

The goal of U'SAgain us to increase the recycling of clothing to 50%.

There is plenty of room for all organizations to benefit if 50% of our clothing is reused instead of just 15%.

If you give your used clothing and household linens to GoodWill, the Salvation Army, or another charity, please continue to do so.

But...

If you haven't had the time

If you haven't gotten around to it

If you don't know where to give

If you never thought of donating before

If you have no way to drop off your items

If you don't want to wait for the collection that may be months away...

Consider Recycling! It's easy!

The environmental savings would be enormous!

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