Levi’sĪccording to Levi’s, “Americans annually discard more than 28 billion pounds of unwanted clothing, shoes and other textiles. It’s fun to give and to get! You can learn more at. In addition, Madewell and JCrew will give you a coupon for $20 off your next pair of jeans. You can bring your old denim to any Madewell or JCrew store and it will be sent to Blue Jeans Go Green to be recycled into denim insulation. Madewell and JCrew have partnered with Blue Jeans Go Green now through December 2018 to help collect denim for recycling. Patagonia accepts their clothing for recycling at Patagonia retail stores, participating retail partners, and old clothing can also be sent back to Patagonia per the instructions on their website. Fast forward to 2018 and owning a Patagonia jacket is still a must-have especially knowing how they care for the environment. It was one of the reasons everyone in my middle school, and high school, HAD to own a Patagonia jacket. PatagoniaĪh Patagonia! They have been caring for the environment since the beginning of time. H & M has an incredible program, you can read all about it at HM.com. In addition, they will reuse fabrics to make new clothing, and they also recycle unusable fabrics into textile fibers used for things such as insulation. H & M will re-sell old clothing in resalable condition. They have a strong eco-chic policy which includes recycling clothing from any brand, and in any condition. Linked to the fast fashion industry, people think of H & M as a place of excess but it is not. H & M might not be the first place you think of when you think recycling. You can bring old Eileen Fisher clothing back to an Eileen Fisher Store, an Eileen Fisher Renew store, or send it in via mail. To reward you, Eileen Fisher gives you a $5 rewards card for each item you bring back to them. Since 2009, Eileen Fisher has taken back over 800,000 pieces of clothing! That’s 800,000 items which did not end up in a landfill. Then, it can be re-sold so it can be loved in a new home. The clothing is either repaired, or re-worked into an entirely new, one-of-a-kind piece. They take back old Eileen Fisher clothing and re-new them into pieces which can be worn. Eileen FisherĮileen Fisher has a fabulous recycling program. Love that! So, without further ado, here are five fabulous stores which accept old clothing for their recycling programs. Many retailers are getting in on the recycling game and offering discounts to customers who bring in old clothing for donation. Of course, we don’t have to do everything ourselves. It’s a great way to send an item to a new home and make some of your investment back. They will come by your house to pick up your luxury goods for consignment, and you also have the option to mail items in to them, risk-free. If you don’t already consign, I highly recommend The Real Real. In addition to donating old clothing, it is always pennywise to sell gently used clothing and accessories from popular labels and premier designers on consignment. It is fairly safe to assume that you actively donate old clothing to local charities the most common one being Goodwill. So, I am not writing this to teach you something, I am writing this post in the hopes that you are inspired to help spread the word about keeping clothing out of our landfills! The readers of Bay Area Fashionista are well-educated and quite savvy. This means fabrics, toxic dyes, and possibly bits of metal, leather, plastic and more end up in our landfills, unable to decompose or be recycled.Īt this point in time, I hope and believe that as you read this, you already understand that any amount of clothing in our landfills is not acceptable and chances are, if you are reading this, you already know not to throw out clothing! While many people consign or donate old clothing they no longer want, there are still many people on Earth who are uninformed, and will simply throw their old clothing in the trash bin. It is incredible how much clothing residents of first world countries plow through every year. Madewell jeans and a JCrew coat both companies participate in clothing recycling programs. In Eco Chic / General Fashion tagged hm / jcrew / levis / madewell / patagonia / recycle by Bay Area Fashionista
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