[All] Recycling Textiles

[Lori Strothard]

My understanding is that we want to get all forms of textiles to not go to landfill where they lie useless for many years. All forms of textiles can be re-used ,as there is a huge rag trade world wide for cloth that is no longer useful in any other way. I believe Re-use is the first best option, recycling it somehow would be the next best option. both of which have many degrees of better or worse ways of using things. People forget that textiles include so many things in a houshold (and in other areas too) -so its not just clothing, its bedsheets, duvets, towels, curtains, furniture covers, some type of (throw) rugs, so many things in our lives involve textiles. There is a place in Georgetown called Wastewise that I visited about 15 years ago that has an amazing textile recycling program- they had mountains of textiles. Maybe we could visit there. Susan K. and I both know Kathy Barsoum who works for the Region in Waste Management, and I could ask her if she knows much about this topic and could meet with us. I am very interested in pursuing this issue further. 

The Goodwill issue us tricky -apparently some of them only want good quality clean re-usable clothing and other locations are not so picky. But the Worth a Second Look/Green Door drop off location her in KW takes all kinds of textiles in any condition- one example of re-use is that many local Mennonite women make hooked rugs out of certain types of cloth not suitable for other things...often men's suits oddly enough, due to the durability.

Thanks, 
 Lori (Strothard)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Caterina Lindman 
  To: John Jackson 
  Cc: GREN > 
  Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 10:09 AM
  Subject: Re: [All] Recycling Textiles


  If clothes are brought to the Goodwill (which is at Gate 2 at the Waterloo Region Landfill on Erb St.), are they either re-used or re-cycled?  That seems to be the indication from the Region of Waterloo website.  Sabine's slides seem to imply that Goodwill in London is only interested in clothes that can be re-used.


  Is the purpose of Gren's project to encourage people to drop their clothes off at Goodwill if they cannot be re-used, and to donate them to Goodwill or another second-hand shop if they can be re-used?  



  On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, John Jackson <jjackson at web.ca> wrote:

    I've had several requests for the presentation that Sabine Weber made on recycling textiles at our June GREN meeting. That presentation is now in two files on the GREN website at http://gren.ca/documents/


    I also heard from some people who would like to develop this into a project for GREN to work on over the next year. If you have interest in exploring what we might do, let me know and I will set up a meeting (probably at my house) to pull together ideas. 


    John



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