The Benefits of
Textile Recycling with BCR

There are many benefits from BCR's Textile service, both home and abroad.

• Sustaining jobs in the UK for the collection and sorting of textiles and shoes.
• Creating jobs for businesses who sell the recycled garments abroad.
• Providing inexpensive clothes for third world countries throughout the globe.
• Better clothing creates a feeling of pride and well-being in the community.
• The amount of clothing exported to these countries helps improve the UK's balance of trade.
• Using textile banks allows the public to recycle items that would otherwise go into landfill.
• BCR are constantly exploring new ways of re-using and recycling more of the textiles and shoes collected from textiles banks.

In the UK alone, over 1 million tonnes of textiles go to landfill every year!