Textile recycling
Every year an estimated 336,000 tonnes of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK. There is absolutely no need for any clothing or textiles to make its way into the rubbish bin.
Small item collections
Any unwanted clothing can be placed alongside your recycling bin on your scheduled collection day.
Make sure you put them in a bag to keep them dry, tie any pairs of shoes together and place the bag on top of the bin.
Love Your Clothes
Love Your Clothes was launched in 2014 to address the landfill issue and to help inspire and influence people to make small conscious changes to reduce the impact of clothes on the environment.
It aims to improve the sustainability of clothing, reduce the environmental impact of clothing and increase the active life of the clothes we wear.
Love Your Clothes provides help and advice on:
- buying clothes
- care and repair
- refashion and upcycle
- unwanted clothes
Get involved and find out how you can Love Your Clothes.
TRAID
We have partnered with the West London Waste Authority and TRAID to provide free home collections of unwanted textiles as well as small electrical waste at a time convenient for you.
Make sure you have at least one bag of textiles for collection, and any electrical waste can be collected at the same time. Donations will be hand sorted at their warehouse for suitable clothing to be sold back to the public in one of TRAID's 12 charity shops.
Other recycling locations
As well as Greenford Road reuse and recycling centre, you can also take textiles to:
- Bilton Road, UB6 7DE (outside the post office)
- Bromyard Avenue, W3 7JY (outside entrance to The Vale estate)
- Church Road Shopping Parade, UB5 5AU
- Fleming Road, Golf Links Estate, UB1 3LL
- Borders Road, W7 1JB
- Medway Parade, UB6 8HR
- Norwood Green Road/Harewood Terrace, UB2 4JD
- Ruislip Road, UB6 9RT (outside the Baptist Church)
- South Road, UB1 1SQ (outside of the car park)
