textile recycling center
 

What to do with the clothing that is 'not good enough' to donate to a Secondhand Retail Store - but 'still good enough' to paint in?

Here is a place in southern Minnesota that will accept such items.

http://www.wipersrecycling.com/items_wanted.htm

They said they will also occasionally accept the snibbles and bits left over from trimming blocks, etc. when they do 'a grind'

I have about four bags of this kind of thing - what's left of a pair of jeans after cutting as many squares as I could, the seams left over after cutting a shirt apart, etc. etc.

I wonder if other large cities have companies/organizations that do this type of recycling. There are recycling centers for plastic and aluminium and paper, why not fabrics/clothing. Thanks for this info.

there might be - try googling "textile recycling"

I called our trash pickup company - the person that answered the phone was not helpful at all.

This is stuff that I've been wearing - although not in public :blush: - that I know could be shredded and reused - but I certainly would NOT buy it - or even dig it out of a 'free box' at a garage sale.

I wish we had a place like that, I am just getting a big bag full ready to go into Fridays garbage it would sure be nice to recycle it.

thanks for that info. it's very interesting! i didn't know that we had that here.

I am keeping a bag in the sewing room for snips and scraps to fill doggy pillows for the shelter.

I wish we had a place like that here in my area as well. There are alot of people who would like to recycle used clothing that is no longer wearable.

in times past, they would have gone for rag rugs and such...

What a great thought.
I struggled with this for years. Seems such a waste to put these items in the trash.

Wow, these folks are recycling just about anything and all I get from my city is that "there is no market for this plastic, glass and cardboard. Recycling is not worth it for us."