Give Your Unwanted / Unworn Clothes To Charity

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Go through your clothes. No, really, you can do it! Pull out the items you don’t wear – not just the ones you will never wear. Most of us have a few too many jumpers or blouses, t-shirts or trousers. Someone else will value your cast offs.

There are around 6,500 charity shops in the UK. The re-use and recycling aspects of the work of charity shops often goes unrecognised. For many years, charity shops have been recycling in large volumes, ensuring that large quantities of clothing and other goods are re-used which is good news for people who rely on charity shops for their clothing – and good news for the landfill sites.

An alternative to charity shops is organisations working with refugees, homeless people or victims of domestic violence many of whom are grateful for donations of clothes and in some cases household goods.

Shouldn’t be difficult to find an outlet near you.

Flickr photosource -- thanks Al Jordan.

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  1. Rachel Rachel
    GB , 09 Nov 2010

    My friend told me about a rule she had – that if she hadn’t worn something for a year, she’d take it to a charity shop – a good rule!

  2. Emma H Emma H
    GB , 23 Jan 2011

    I do something similar. we quite regularly have collection vans who come to collect unwanted clothing or bedding for various charities. If I don’t where it, why deprive someone else of right to be warm

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