Where are textile recycling places?

[Rosetta]

I have some clothes not good enough for charity shop donation and so want to recycle them.

Thanks.

[rendelharris]

Dog Kennel Hill Sainsbury's, back of the car park. Best to go in the daytime as the night seems to attract the odd strange character waiting to scavenge - probably perfectly harmless but better safe...

[Sally Eva]

There's one in Peckham Rye Park in the car park beside the cafe. Bag up the clothes. Most people don't and so the clothes end up in a big jumble which is hard for the men emptying the rag bank to handle. One really filthy thing then contaminates everything else. Keep the bags small or they won't go into the chute.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

The textile bin by The Plough is operated by Gaia, an extremely *unusual* Danish organisation with all sorts of *quixotic* ideas about how to cure AIDS. A quick google of 'Gaia clothing bins' will give you many, many sources of info. I would not use that bin.

[Rosetta]

Thank you for the info. Any idea where the clothes go to eventually? Do these places take shoes too?

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

I believe they will all take shoes too. If it's run by a charity, then the best clothes might make it into stores. Other clothes will be sold by the kilo to raise money for the organisation that has the bin. Stuff that's not suitable for sale as clothes will be sold as bulk textiles for rags.

[ruffers]

I use the one by the MIND shop.