This story was written by Ben Stern and initially appeared on The Cool Down.
People have a lot of garments. And whereas we must always have fun having nice senses of fashion, the style decisions we make typically create quite a lot of waste — virtually 85% of textiles discover their approach into landfills, with the common American creating near 80 pounds of textile waste annually.
Not solely is that quite a lot of money thrown away, however this wasteful behavior additionally fills up our landfills and pollutes our Earth, contributing to its overheating. However one style model is on a mission to vary that.
For Days desires to take all of your outdated garments and recycle them into new objects. And it doesn’t matter how overwhelmed up the garments are or what they appear like — the corporate is dedicated to recycling them.
For Days has made the recycling course of as straightforward as doable, in order that recycling your undesirable garments doesn’t need to be a chore. Simply order one of many For Days “Take Again Baggage,” slap on the pay as you go label, and ship it proper again!
Every bag prices $20, and in return, the corporate will reward you with $20 in “Closet Cash” with the intention to store the positioning for brand spanking new, sustainably made clothes that you just really need.
“Ship your outdated crap again for recycling and your Closet Money might be instantly used on new stuff,” the corporate succinctly places it on its website.
Every “Take Again Bag” can maintain about 25 pounds of clothes. Even when simply 1,000 individuals take part, that’s 25,000 kilos of textiles diverted from rotting in landfills, which can cease a ton of water and air air pollution from coming into the environment.
25 kilos of outdated, worn, undonatable clothes eliminated out of your closet in alternate for one thing new seems like a reasonably whole lot to us.
This story was written by Ben Stern and initially appeared on The Cool Down.
