Everything comes with an expiry date – including the clothes we wear. While some of our outfits get more than their fair share of outings, others are lucky enough to be worn once or maybe twice. Nonetheless, all these items eventually collect dust somewhere in our closet, waiting to be tossed away.

It’s the lifecycle of a wardrobe to ditch the old and make space for the new. In fact, an average human buys 60% new pieces of clothing every year.

We buy clothes to get a fresh fashion start; however, the environment pays its actual cost.

The yearly impact of clothing on nature is equivalent to water required to fill 1000 bathtubs and carbon emissions from driving a car for 6000 miles. What intensifies the matter is the staggering amount of clothing waste dumped into landfills every year.

An average U.S consumer throws away approximately 70 lbs of clothes annually. And all this textile waste takes up 5% landfill space. The figures are alarming enough to tackle clothing waste head-on.

On the bright side, you can divert this waste stream from landfills by recycling clothes and textile items. Well-worn, ill-fit, or unflattering – whatever maybe the reason to get rid of a piece of clothing, there’s always a way to get it out of your sight and the trash.

Here are some recycling options you can try for your duds: