Textiles

Old and damaged clothes and textiles

Old and damaged clothes and textiles are not accepted in your local council’s kerbside recycling or residual bin.

*Check out the Authority’s clothes and textiles campaign: https://recycleright.org.uk/do-it-right/textiles/

Old and damaged clothes and textiles can be recycled in the textiles banks at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre.

*Find out more here: https://www.merseysidewda.gov.uk/waste-recycling/household-waste-recycling-centres-hwrcs/

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TEXTILE FACTS:

Clothes and textiles should never be thrown away.
You can donate items that are clean and good condition to local charity shops or voluntary organisations who will be able to reuse them, or can always be donated to a local jumble sale or a clothes swap event
You can even donate unusable items (e.g. torn or ripped clothes, single socks) but keep them separate from good quality materials and label bags as rags.
Most clothes and textiles, regardless of their condition, can be recycled at all of Merseyside and Halton's Household Waste Recycling Centres.