Recycle clothes, accessories and textiles from home
Your district or borough council is responsible for collecting your waste. All local councils except Reigate and Banstead provide a clothes and textile collection service for residents. To find out more about collections or to report issues with collections, visit our page on kerbside waste collections.
If you live in Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley or Woking, you can put clothes and textiles out for recycling collection by your council.
If you live in Reigate and Banstead as well as all other areas of Surrey, Anglo Doorstep Collections provides free collections of clothes and textiles, among many other types of waste.
To find out what to do with different types of clothes and textiles, visit our webpage on can you recycle clothes and textiles?
If you live in Elmbridge, Guildford, Mole Valley, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge or Woking, leave your clothes and textiles in a small, tied plastic bag next to your bins on collection day. Additionally, add a label to your bag if you live in Epsom and Ewell.
Items must be contained within bags, which must be no larger than a standard sized supermarket carrier bag. Items in larger bags, such as bin bags, will not be collected.
If you live in Waverley, you will need to book a free collection from your home. To find out more information, visit Waverley Borough Council’s webpage on small electricals and textiles collection.
Once collected, clothes and textiles are sorted and are either worn again in the UK or abroad or are turned into stuffing and insulation. Find out more by visiting our webpage on what happens to your waste.
Recycling clothes and textiles is good for the environment. When you recycle clothes and textiles it is good for the environment as it saves on using up resources to create new products. It also saves councils money when you recycle clothes and textiles as it costs more to process rubbish than it does to recycle them.
There are other ways to recycle clothes and textile waste, such as at recycling banks and community recycling centres. For more information, visit our webpage on waste locations around the county.
You can also find more information by visiting our webpage on reducing, reusing and repairing your clothing waste.
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