DID YOU KNOW...?  

• Canadians are amongst the most wasteful people in the world. 

• There is an average of 7 kilograms of textile waste (clothes, bedding, curtains, etc.) per person in landfills throughout Canada. 

• Textile waste accounts for more than 4% of materials in Canada's landfills. 

• If all the textiles that are thrown away in one year were compressed together they could fill a solid structure, as wide and tall as the Skydome, 3 times over. 

• Synthetic (man-made fibres) products will not decompose, and while woolen garments do decompose, they produce methane gas which causes global warming. 38% of Canada's methane emmisions (greenhouse gases) comes from landfill sites.

• 85% of reycylable clothes are being needlessly thrown out. 

• On average, 80% of textiles thrown away still have 75% of their wearability left. 

• If everyone in Canada bought one reclaimed woolen garment each year, it would save an average of 300 million gallons of water and 400 tonnes of chemical dyes. 

• Giving old clothing to local non-profit groups for reuse is suggested by Environment Canada as a way to reduce residential wastes. 

• Each year 75,000 tons of textile waste is recycled into new raw materials for the automotive, furniture, mattress, coarse yarn, home furnishings, paper, and other industries. 

For more information on clothes recycling, and the impact on our enviroment, please check out these websites:  

Here are 3 ways you can donate: 

	USED CLOTHING DONATION BOXES
	USED CLOTHING PICKUP SERVICE
	WORKPLACE USED CLOTHING DRIVE