Textile waste includes old clothes, shoes, stuffed animals and other textiles like bed linen and curtains. Textiles are collected in recycling bins. This also applies to broken or incomplete clothing and accessories like bags and belts. Many textiles get a second life.
How is the waste collected?
Textiles can be disposed of in special clothes containers. These are usually near supermarkets. You can also dispose of old textiles at a waste recycling point or a thrift store.
To protect clothes against moist and dirt, it's important you offer your textiles in a closed bag.
When filling a bag with textiles, please mind that the bag should fit through the container opening. Offer shoes per pair bound together.
Textiles in short
- Bring clothing and textile to textile recycling bins
- Shoes, sheets, belts and broken textile, can be collected as textile waste
- Please make sure the textiles are dry and not contaminated
- Mattresses are not textile waste
What happens to the waste?
Cure delivers the donated textiles to Wolkat. All the materials are checked and sorted here. Usable clothes are brought to thrift stores or clothing banks and other textiles are processed into things like cleaning rags and isolation.
Please do not dispose other waste into textile containers. This makes the textiles unusable.
What qualifies as textile?
Yes
- Clothing (also broken and incomplete)
- Bath towels (towels, washcloths, etc.)
- Sheets, blankets
- Kitchen textiles (tea towels, tablecloths, fabrics, etc.)
- Curtains
- Hugs
- Shoes (paired together)
- Bags, belts and scarves
No
- Mattresses
- Seriously contaminated textiles (by paint stains, chemicals)
- Wet fabric
- Toys (if made up of hard plastic)
Tip!
"Turn in textiles in a closed bag. This protects the clothes against moisture and contamination."
