Is there a resting place for tired clothes?

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I have quite a few items of clothing which are no longer fit to wear. They are no good for the charity shop or selling on ebay. So am wondering if anyone knows of a "bag 'o rags" recycling facility? I don't just want these items to end life in a landfill if they don't have too

zzzLazyDaisy

It is worth asking at your local charity shop - ours takes clothes that are not fit to sell on, as they can sell those clothes for rags - though they do appreciate them being sorted and labelled as rags, and not mixed up with normal clothes donations!

Hetty17

Try the smaller charity shops - the ones that sell donated goods, rather than bought-in bric-a-brac. Locally to me, the Home Farm Trust will gladly take rags; Oxfam, British Heart Foundation and Roy Castle Cancer won't.

zzzLazyDaisy

Our local samaritans will. Don;t know about the others.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Ok. will check out the local charity shops. Thanks.

Mids_Costcutter

Are the clothes really no longer fit to wear or just not in good enough condition to sell in a shop here?

If not good enough to sell I usually deposit in a clothing bank (preferably one provided by a charity). There is an international market in second-hand clothes which charities can benefit from: a lot of these clothes are shipped to developing countries.

If I have any clothes that are really falling apart and are made from natural fibres e.g. cotton, wool etc. then these go on the compost heap.

bluebag

Our local church jumble sale has a 'rag man' that collects all the unsellable clothes after the jumble, might be worth asking if your local church has something similar.