The funds raised in the charity shops from stopping clothes from being thrown away are committed to global projects improving conditions and working practices in the textile industry. It’s a major process which sees the team sorting, hanging, tagging, pricing and merchandising around 11,000 garments per week to reuse and resell. TRAID hand sorts donations at a warehouse in London selecting stock for Traid shops based on condition, quality and style. What happens to the clothes and textiles?ĭonated clothes are transformed into high quality stock for the Traid charity shops. If you have a suggestion for where to put a new textile recycling site, please let us know. The textile locations are yellow on the map: All shoes can be put into a bag or tied together as a pair and put into the textiles recycling bankįind your nearest textile recycling site. Put them into the clothes bank inside a plastic bag or in loose.

You can recycle your unwanted clothes, textiles and shoes at the recycling points listed below. Complete the booking form or telephone Traid on 020 8733 2595. This would suit residents who have a lot of clothes to donate at one time. Collections are arranged by appointment only with Traid.

Traid offers a free collection service of your unwanted textiles from your door.

Banks will be serviced more frequently, they should be more secure, and importantly, most of the textiles collected will be reused or recycled in Britain.īed linen such as sheets, duvet covers and pillow cases can be placed in our textile bins but not any filled linen items such as duvets or pillows. Our old textile recycling banks have all be replaced with new textile recycling banks supplied by Traid for Islington Council. Islington has teamed up textile recyclers Traid to provide residents with a new and improved textile recycling bank service. Please make sure that your textiles and shoes are all put inside the textile container and not left on the ground to be collected as rubbish.

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