Textile collections at HWRCs across Devon are set to end after SATCoL confirmed it will remove 27 clothing banks from sites in the county.

Residents in parts of Devon may notice changes to their local textile bank service, as twenty-seven Salvation Army banks are ...

Textile collections at HWRCs across Devon are set to end after SATCoL confirmed it will remove 27 clothing banks from sites in the county.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.

In 2015, Denmark-based nonprofit Global Fashion Agenda estimated that 92 million tons of textile waste were generated worldwide annually, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, based in the United ...