Breast Cancer Campaign extends clothes recycling scheme online
Howard Lake | 8 February 2011 | News
Breast Cancer Campaign has established an online textile recycling service to extend its reach across the UK and increase income.
The scheme, provided by BCR Global Textiles, enables people to go online to arrange for unwanted textiles and shoes to be collected for recycling. For every tonne of clothes recycled under the scheme, Breast Cancer Campaign will receive £200.
According to figures from the Department for the Environment, over two million tonnes of textile waste is generated annually, with only 24% of this collected for re-use and recycling.
The free collection service is available across the UK. Users register on the site to receive a recycling clothes bag, fill it up in their own time and then log back on to let BCR Global Textiles know when it is ready for collection.
Lynne Timms, BCR Globals Contracts Manager, said: “People across the UK now have an easier and more convenient way to recycle unwanted clothes and pairs of shoes. Now is the perfect time to spring clean your wardrobe and help raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign.”
BCR Global Textiles has raised £36,622.26 for Breast Cancer Campaign since 2008 through door to door recycling collections and from the clothes donated via their textile recycling banks, which are located across the UK.
www.bcrbreastcancercampaign.com
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.