Recycle Your Used Clothes

Written by Pats Papers | Sunday, 21 March 2010 9:29 AM

The average American throws away 54 pounds of used clothes and shoes every year, reports the Los Angeles Times. The best used clothing may find its way to somebody else through a resale shop, but there’s an alternative for the rest: recycling. The Secondary Materials and Recycled Textile Association says 45% of the clothes its members handle are sold to other countries, 30% are turned into cleaning rags, and 25% are used for insulation or stuffing.

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