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 Clothing & Textile Recycling Program
The Wheaton Park District is now hosting a clothing and textile recycling bin.
What Can Go in the Bin?
Acceptable: clothes, shoes and household textiles of good quality, that are ready to be reworn and reused. Household textiles include tablecloths, towels, beddings, blankets, bedspreads, etc.
Clothes, shoes and textiles must be clean and dry, and dropped off in tied plastic bags. A sturdy plastic bag protects the clothes from dirt and simplifies handling.
Not Acceptable: mattresses, furniture, appliances, carpet, household items, toys or trash.
Location
The clothing and textile recycling bin is located in the southwest corner of the Wheaton Park District Community Center parking lot at 1777 South Blanchard Road in Wheaton (near the corner of Naperville and Blanchard Road).
Download a PDF: ClothingTextileRecycling.pdf
Contact
For more information, please contact the Wheaton Park District Green Team at twhelan@wheatonparks.org.
About the Clothing Recyler
USAgain is a for-profit company that collects unwanted textiles and resells them in the United States and abroad. Instead of throwing away unwanted clothes, consumers drop them off in the bin, textiles are then diverted from landfills to be reworn, reused or recycled.
One million pounds of clothing per week are collected, which is then purchased by wholesale buyers, thrift store chains and textile recyclers. In 2009, USAgain collected more than 54 million pounds of discarded clothing.
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