The Circular Textile Waste Service (CTWS) is the next step beyond recycling. Australia's only fully circular service that sends zero textiles offshore, zero textiles to landfill and diverts zero plastic microfibres back into recycled yarn that just keeps shedding plastic microfibres.
GOT WASTE?
See individual services that we offer according to your waste.
The full circular solutions offer textile diversion solutions based on both garment/product type and fibre type. Our various circular streams and Circular Market offer clients an opportunity to divert and/or purchase circular products.
Circular streams are tailored to suit:
2. Councils
See the Virgin Airlines uniforms & workwear service Case Study
4. Community groups + eco-businesses
We currently runs for Mosman City Council, Virgin Airlines and General Pants Co.
As a start-up, we are working with councils and businesses to put the service into the community as quickly as possible.
At last official count, Australia recycles 88,000 tonnes of clothing per year, however a staggering 800,000 tonnes of textile waste goes to landfill.
Providing the missing piece of the recycling puzzle to become circular
HOW DOES IT WORK?
AT A GLANCE.
- We collect OR you deliver a minimum of 120kg
- the clothing and textile waste is transported to our local disability enterprise partners to sort, weigh, collect data, dismantle, rebale and redistribute to a growing number of circular streams throughout Australia
- OR we send direct to the waste stream that suits your material type.
NEXT STEP.
- depending on your material type, the product is sent to reuse, upcycle or repurpose.
- we collect, measure and audit the disposal, resource recovery and repurposing data and offer a Life Cycle Assessment
- You will receive a Zero Textile Waste Certification and data on the carbon emissions you have mitigated.
WHAT WE DON'T DO.
- we don't send to landfill, incinerate or ship overseas as this will create more carbon emissions and pollution plus just end up in another countries landfill creating more carbon emissions. The Circular Centre is the only service in Australia that doesn't do this.
Contact us to request an Assessment Form to determine which of our resource recovery services and streams you require and provide a quote.
WHAT WE DO DO.
- we address the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals especially #13 Climate Action and request that our clients sign a commitment to with the United Nations Charter for Climate Action.
- we divert and harness the textile waste instead of causing more harm or a little bit less harm
- we promote circular economy innovation, industries and manufacturing to stay in Australia
- we both mitigate carbon emissions by diverting textiles from landfill plus sequester carbon through our #iamcarbonpositive direct action initiative
- we encourage education, awareness and community empowerment and highlight problems with over consumption plus promote reuse, recycle and redesign streams
- we support disability enterprise's working with Australia's peak body BuyAbility
- we support charities and re-sharing communities.
and through the Circular Market we
- create safe repurposed products and will not allow our synthetic fibres to be put back into the fashion supply chain to continue to cause harm
- we develop financially sustainable circular systems
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COLLECTION SERVICE
RECYCLESMART collect a long list of items including e-waste, soft plastics plus both "good" and unwearable "waste" clothing and homewares. Currently based in Sydney, the Circular Centre may be able to tap in to existing sytems operating in your area. Fill in the Assessment so we can learn more about your requirements.
Councils can advertise their service to be Zero Textile Waste and offer it to residents so they stop throwing into their garbage bin.
RecycleSmart and the Circular Centre work with councils to ensure that:
1. "good" clothing is donated to Vinnies
2. clean unwearable clothing and homewares are given to us to be saved from landfill
3. unwanted denim - the good, bad and ugly denim is repaired, upcycled and re-designed through our collaboration with TAFE NSW.
CLOTHING BIN SERVICE
Councils and participating community networks can install two standard 120kg Clothing Bins per location to have the contents collected, sorted, dismantled & repurposed.
Clothing bins are the most successful ways to divert clothing from landfill.
GREEN BIN - UNWEARABLES
4 REPURPOSE
Use the bin to promote your circular initiative and collect clean unwearable clothing, bras and homewares (no feathers, shoes or accessries).
BLUE BIN CIRCULAR DENIM
We collect all denim - the good, bad and ugly denim to be redesigned and repurposed with fashion students plus repurposed through the CTWS waste streams.
YELLOW BIN -
Customers can drop off their 100% "good" clothing that will be donated to various charities so they can continue to do excellent work caring for the community.
COLLECTION OR DROP-OFF for corporate clients, fashion and garment producers for Deadstock and/or a Take-Back Service plus commercial Industrial textile waste
Arrange a collection, a take-back service or send textile waste direct for repurposing and become Zero Textile Waste Certified.
Request an Assessment Form so we can tailor a Circular Textile Waste Service to meet your requirements.
THE CIRCULAR TEXTILE WASTE SERVICE IS A NSW ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AUTHORITY, WASTE LESS RECYCLE MORE INITIATIVE FUNDED FROM THE WASTE LEVY
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General Pants Co + Circular Denim Project Launch
Australia's Largest Denim Redesign Project + Competition challenges designers + fashion students to create a Ready to Wear garment using denim diverted from General Pants Co.'s Denim Amnesty