Primark, the High street & the fast-fashion retailer is rolling out a nationwide recycling scheme in the UK, encouraging shoppers to donate their pre-loved clothes, bags, and footwear from any brand to be “reused, recycled or repurposed” through its in-store recycling. The collection boxes for shoppers to ditch old clothes at placed in all 190 of its UK stores.
Primark has taken this step to slow the flow of garments ending up in landfill every year.
“We know people don’t always find it easy to recycle their clothes, textiles and shoes,” said Katharine Stewart, ethical trade and environmental sustainability director at Primark said. “Now is the perfect time to be launching our in-store recycling programme, making it convenient for customers to give a second life to items from their wardrobe that they no longer need.”
WRAP estimates more than a third of the population had a clear out of unwanted textiles and clothing during lockdown, and in late June the waste charity urged people to consider in-store collections in order to prevent charity shops from being overwhelmed by donations.
WRAP director Peter Maddox described Primark’s in-store recycling plan as “an effective, and often underused way to donate clothes”.
“Primark is a signatory of the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, and this new in-store recycling scheme for clothes gives people even more options, and will help make recycling clothes easier with drop off boxes in stores on high streets and retail hubs across the UK,” he said.
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