Report on Recycling clothes

            If we are speaking about waste to be recycling, then one thing that comes across your mind is mostly will be like waste from the damaged food package, or maybe waste in form of crinkled up plastic bottles. Definitely you will not think a waste such as wearable dress or some cool pairs of your favorite jeans that unable to fit in your body anymore.

        Do you know that every single year, there are above than 80 billion clothes are manufactured and traded all over the world? Means that, each year, huge numbers of used clothes are going to the garbage just to create space for the new arrival ones. One more the fact that you might do not know is that only 15% of undesirable clothing is really able to be recycled. The rest of them will able to harm the environment if you will just throw them away to your dustbin.

        Well, if you really have to throw away your unwanted clothes, one thing you have to consider is that those unwanted clothes might able to be recycled or even reuse as well. All you have to do is hand over your unwanted clothes to some recycling companies that doing business in recycling clothes. Plus, with giving your unwanted clothes to these companies to make them reuse or recycle, you will also contribute to the benefits of the environmental effects from the waste of your unwanted clothes as well.

Recycle clothes for money

        We have to admit that, almost all of us must have some clothes hanging inside our wardrobe that we do not really use anymore. However, the point you need to understand that, the clothes that might no longer wanted for you, might be still desirable for many people. Therefore, rather than thinking to throw away your unwanted clothes into the dust bin and make harm for the environment, then you should think to recycle your unwanted clothes for money. Yes, as I mentioned above, there are numbers of recycling companies will be happy to give you cash for selling your unwanted clothes. Some of those companies even provide their services online, which make it easier for you to sell your unwanted clothes. All you have to do is browse on the Internet and find out those companies, make a call, and then get the cash, that simple. Keep in mind that, with recycling your clothes for money, you will get the benefits from the cash that you can use to buy new clothes maybe, and plus, you will also save the environment as well.

Find a consignment store Recycling clothes

        A consignment store might also could be another alternative for you in dealing with your unwanted clothes. A consignment store basically works within two different ways; open payments and also sharing profit. If you are giving your clothes and asking for an open payment system from a consignment store, then the staff of the consignment store will check on your unwanted clothes first, in order to figure out if those clothes will be able to resale in that shop or not. The staff will choose which clothes they can accept and which clothes you have to bring home, or maybe you can donate them for charity. Then, the staff will offer you whether you want the money to be in cash or in the form of store credit.

        In the other hand, if you will choose to sell your unwanted clothes for getting a profit sharing from a consignment store, then the staff will give you an account number which included the entire items that are considered to be resalable within that account number. From here, you and the consignment store will divide the profits based on the rate that you agreed previously. Then you can earn them via cash or the form of store credit as well.

What can I do with old shoes?

           We all might have that guilty feeling of having more than a pair of shoes that we actually really use and need. The appearance of numbers of online shopping which offering new styles of shoes have made us obsess to have the trendy shoes that are considered to be "in." However, the result from this is clear; we will end up with having many shoes that we only use for few times loaded our shoe’s rack. This will make it complicated if you are aiming to buy new shoes, while you do not have space for them. Thus, you might think to throw away your old shoes. Well, here is the fact that you should know, unused shoes are considered to be harmful to the environment since they need about 1,000 years to breakdown. Therefore, you should think of other ways to recycle your old shoes rather than just simply throw them away.

        The first thing you could consider is, donate your old shoes to charity. Yes, instead than throwing them away, you could donate them through a shoe recycle bin, or shoe bank as they will take the textile parts of your shoes and will recycle them to create something that is useful. Secondly, you can also donate your old shoes through charity shops. Some of your old shoes which are still wearable could be reused for the people who need them.

Recycling clothing facts

To give you more understanding of recycling clothing, there are some facts that you should know:

        Clothes need for more than 40 years to be decomposed, some materials even need longer time to be decomposed than the other ones, and those materials contain their destructive side effects for the environment.

        Shoes even need longer than clothes; they need about 1,000 years or more to finally breakdown. The reason is from the common material named with ethylene vinyl which located as the mid soles of shoes need a very long time to finally breakdown.

        About 700 gallons required to make a single cotton shirt. This is an amazing fact to know that it takes plenty of water only to produce a single cotton shirt.

        Only 95% of textiles can be recycled, and this fact definitely convinces us to do the recycling of our clothes.

        Textiles can be repurposed and changed into various stuff, which is including the merchandise in sports, stuff for a pillow, or even the paper money as well.