Recycling and Upcycling

  Do you love your clothes, but hate how quickly they seem to wear out and need to be replaced? There may be a solution for you that doesn’t involve giving up your sense of style – landfill divergence for textiles ! With SwagCycle, you can keep enjoying shopping for new clothes while still minimizing your environmental impact. Let’s explore how SwagCycle helps divert waste from landfills and why this is so important for our planet!

 We all know that we should recycle as much as possible, but what about textiles? Do you know what happens to them when they’re not recycled? Most of them end up in the landfill. But there’s a new company called SwagCycle that’s trying to change that. SwagCycle is all about landfill divergence for textiles. What does that mean? It means that they work to get textiles out of the landfill and into the hands of people who can use them. They do this by collecting used clothes and giving them to people in need or recycling them into new products. If more companies started doing things like this, we could make a real difference in the amount of textiles that end

  Among the many sustainability issues the textiles and apparel industry is facing, textile waste in landfills is near the top of the list. In this article, we talk with Ben Grossman about SwagCycle, his attempt to give back with a goal of landfill divergence for textile-based products, contributing to a reduced footprint and increased circularity. Read More at:  https://www.swagcycle.net/swagcycle-its-all-about-landfill-divergence-for-textiles/