Positive Apparel Thrift Store employees load a semi-trailer with bags of old clothes, which every three weeks makes deliveries from Nelson to a recycling facility in Vancouver. There is nowhere in the Kootenays to recycle textiles. Photo: Tyler Harper Every three weeks, a crew...
Many organizations that accept donations would recycle the stuff they can’t sell rather than send it to the landfill. You might be saving on taxes. When you donate to an IRS-qualified 501(c)(3) public charity, you can take an income tax charitable deduction. Save your receipts and IRS ...
There is also work to be done on improving and expanding textiles recycling. Undoubtedly, used textiles go to landfill in part because there are relatively few systems that collect, recycle and reuse materials. Such recycling requires the manual separation of fibres, as well as buttons and zips....