Where can you recycle cotton products such as clothing?
Besides the well known options such as using old shirts as rags or donating, what other options are their for disposing of old clothing in a enviromentally friendly way? Is there any place to drop off clothing that will recycle it for another use?
Like I said, donating is an obvious answer. I want to know if there is an actual recycling process in place for clothing, specifically cotton products. So I dont want to hear "bout ur blue bins"
and "the poors"…. is it not 2007, have some dignity.
Burn it in your stove for heat.
Toss the old jeans in the trash. They dont recycle cotton.
There are big blue bin for dropping thoses, shoes etc… They recycle to give to the poors.
Sorry, I do not currently know of any locations that recycles cloth/cotton. (I do not believe it exhists due to the different array of materials used in clothing these days.) I have always donated my old sweatshirts, t-shirts, towels, blankets and misc to the Johnson Co Animal Shelter. Even the items with holes or stains. The animals don’t care what it looks like. They just know that they have something warm to lay on.
There are companies that recycle clothes into cleaning rags for commercial and industrial use.
There are also companies that make knotted rugs out of old rags and clothes.