Comeback Clothes
Approximately 95% of all used clothing, footwear, and other household fabric products, such as sheets and towels, can be reused or recycled, yet only 15% of reusable textiles are recycled.
Do you own clothes that you haven't warn in 2+ years sitting in the back of your closet?
Do you want to buy new clothing, shoes, or sheets but don't have the space for it ?
DONT LET UNUSED ITEMS GO TO WASTE... DO YOUR PART AND DONATE
Solution: Donate or recycle clothes to support vulnerable populations and protect the planet at the same time!
5 Environmental Benefits of Donating Clothes:
Every citizen discards up to 80 pounds of clothing annually. Donating prevents the dumps from filling up with clothing and polluting more land.
It can take up to 2,700 liters of water to produce the cotton used in one t-shirt. It means that if 1,000 people donated a t-shirt, they would save nearly a million gallons of water that companies would spend on making new ones. In the same breath, it saves thousands of kilowatts each year that companies require to manufacture new clothing. This energy-saving slows down the extraction of fossil fuels to generate electricity.
Companies’ fibers in manufacturing clothing come from fossil fuels and other non-biodegradable materials. Manufacturing such synthetic fibers produces many greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide, which fill the air. Clothing donations in Utah reduce the carbon footprint as people do not incinerate their old shirts, releasing harmful gasses into the atmosphere.
When you give out clothes that you do not use, you contribute to the circular economy, where goods’ production goes through their lifecycle by getting optimal utilization before they land in the recycle bin. The circular economy reduces wastage and lowers the number of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the factories’ resources during production.
IT HELPS YOUR COMMUNITY and YOURSELF
