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TexCycle - bringing textile street collection in Bulgaria
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TexCycle is an ecosystem of textile recovery solutions provided by an established, sustainability-proven company in Bulgaria. With the cooperation of the municipalities they have positioned specialised clothing and footwear collection bins where citizens can drop off their unwanted garments. TexCycle handles the collection and eventually the further processing (sorting, cleaning, repair, distribution, recycling) of the collected items.

Problem

Landfilling clothing at its end-of-life has a huge environmental impact: some textiles need more than 50 years to decompose, and emit methane as they break down. Toxic substances from these items pollute soil and groundwater, and can have far-ranging impacts.

Solution

Bulgaria-based TexCycle aims to combat landfilling by collecting used clothing from designated bins placed around municipalities. Texcycle offers multiple collection solutions: street collection, in-store collection, and industrial collection. Street collection targets municipalities. Besides the collection itself, they provide the whole follow-up textile recovery, along with a full range of support services like maintenance, legal consultations, public communication, data processing and reporting.

The service accepts clothes, shoes, bags, accessories and evening some household textiles such as curtains.

Additional information

In addition to collection, the company also offers the following services as plug in solutions:

- second-hand clothing distribution (through sister companies Eurotex for wholesale distribution and Shano for retail distribution),

- repair and cleaning to prepare for resale

- hand made sorting

- preparation for recycling (by removing TM symbols, buttons and zippers)

- recycling of fibres or filling (in collaboration with TexCycle recycling partners).

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