Put a small green box outside your business. Watch what your neighborhood does with it.
People want to do the right thing with their old clothes. Most of them have no idea where to take them.
That's the whole problem in a sentence. Households are shifting toward more sustainable habits and local governments are finally treating waste reduction as serious business — but saying textiles don't belong in the landfill is easy. Giving a neighborhood somewhere convenient to actually take them is the hard part, and almost nobody has solved it.
Based on EPA estimates, even with all the thrift stores, worship houses, and door-to-door collections in the country combined, only about 15% of textiles are diverted from landfills. Most U.S. municipalities don't offer textile recycling at all.
Whether you are a school, business, worship house, or local government, a box on your site closes that gap for everyone who walks or drives past it.
Not a setup fee, not a service charge, not ever.
Four out of seven people will choose a business that hosts a donation box over one that doesn't. A box is visible, permanent proof that you take your community seriously — and businesses seen as lagging on environmental responsibility increasingly pay for it at the register.
We own and operate every box we place, and we donate all net proceeds to organizations doing community-based sustainable development work in the US and abroad. Your parking space becomes part of that.
Drivers, sorters, warehouse staff — Bay Area jobs, supported by Bay Area boxes.
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Working with Recycle for Change educates our residents on the importance of recycling, and creates awareness about the significance of diverting textiles from landfills. Barbara Smith, Acting Executive Director
San Francisco Housing Authority
Tell us where you are and we'll take it from there — siting, delivery, and everything after.