Recycling Clothing

[ATJ]

My other half has recently discovered that H&M will give you a £5 voucher per bag of clothes you give them to recycle and now has his heart set on taking them loads of clothes - which has resulted in my house looking like a bomb made of old socks has hit it.

The problem, of course, is that there is no H&M in Stafford.

So, does anyone know of anywhere else that does something similar, but in the local area?

Because I really, really don't want bags of holey old t-shirts hanging around for the next six months.

 

[darben]

Marks & sparks had something like this but don't know if its still running.

I think there is a place up by the tip that pays for old clothes by weight.

 

[Gramaisc]

Marks & sparks had something like this but don't know if its still running.

I think there is a place up by the tip that pays for old clothes by weight.

I saw an A-board in the town today advertising cash for clothes - but I can't remember where it was...

..it might come back to me - on the main street, I think..

 

[tek-monkey]

One appears to have opened near the prison, between the foreign supermarkets at the Sandon Road end.

 

[jacs]

You can use Music Magpie online. They pay you per item, price dependent on brand/condition. And they collect as long as you're selling x amount (25 items I think) or you can post it to them freepost.

 

[ATJ]

Thanks for responses guys.

M&S seems to only accept their own brand clothes and sorting per item for music magpie seems like too much hard work!

I'll look into the local ones and see if they are any good.

 

[Carole]

There is a cash for clothes on the A34 on the Cannock Road.

 

[littleme]

Cash 4 Clothes is also up by the tip, the clothes go to good causes, you get a £5er per bin bag....they also accept shoes, electrical items & I think books too

 

[darben]

M&S seems to only accept their own brand clothes.

It was mum that told me about it, she wouldn't have noticed that it was own brand as it is the only place she seems to shop.

 

[Gramaisc]

Cash 4 Clothes is also up by the tip, the clothes go to good causes, you get a £5er per bin bag....they also accept shoes, electrical items & I think books too

I've got a bin bag and I know where shoes lives.

 

[littleme]

I've got a bin bag and I know where shoes lives.

Shoes value is calculated by weight.

 

[Vicky]

I have used cash 4 clothes at the tip but they pay based on weight so a bin bag could actually give you more, or less than £5, and for books it seems to be a lot less than £5 a bag, I gave about 3 big bags worth of books and got about £3! I know clothes can be sent to other countries but I often wonder where the books go...

 

[Gramaisc]

One appears to have opened near the prison, between the foreign supermarkets at the Sandon Road end.

You're right - that's the one that I saw - I saw it again this morning. It's at the end of Lloyd Street, just opposite the Four Crosses.

 

[littleme]

I have used cash 4 clothes at the tip but they pay based on weight so a bin bag could actually give you more, or less than £5

Yes, sorry, I should of pointed out that its 'around' a fiver per bin bag dependent on weight...

We took some electrical items once (2 TVs & old computer) and received a grand total of about 34p!

Hope its all helping someone in the world, and at least its not going to landfill....

 

[tek-monkey]

Call me cynical, but I suspect the best stuff gets ebayed for profit. Someone has to pay for the shop, the staff, the bills etc. It wouldn't be there unless it made money, how much do charities pay for old pairs of pants for starving Africans?

EDIT: Actually, where do clothesland get their stuff? You get about 50p a Kg, they sell them at a quid each. Pretty sound business model!

 

[United57]

Call me cynical, but I suspect the best stuff gets ebayed for profit. Someone has to pay for the shop, the staff, the bills etc. It wouldn't be there unless it made money, how much do charities pay for old pairs of pants for starving Africans?

EDIT: Actually, where do clothesland get their stuff? You get about 50p a Kg, they sell them at a quid each. Pretty sound business model!

I used to give my clothes to charity but now save them and take them to the place by the tip. I have the money for a pint.

When you take them to charity shops they are sorted and not all end up in the shop. Really tatty stuff goes to be pulped up and really good stuff ends up in vintage shops or other high end shops. Charity shops have got wise to the fact that shop of the thinks they have given to them can be sorted and sold else where.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...liam-Booth-makes-fortune-donated-clothes.html

I went to school with Nigel and he is not self made his father was in the rag trade. All those vintage shops in London are supplied by him. He imports bales from the US and has a team that shift through them.

 

[littleme]

Call me cynical, but I suspect the best stuff gets ebayed for profit. Someone has to pay for the shop, the staff, the bills etc. It wouldn't be there unless it made money, how much do charities pay for old pairs of pants for starving Africans?

EDIT: Actually, where do clothesland get their stuff? You get about 50p a Kg, they sell them at a quid each. Pretty sound business model!

Its true, you would be much better off selling it at a quid a time on the carboot sale....

I wonder too if the electrical stuff gets sent abroad to China or India where they break it down for the metals inside...(I vaguely remember reading something about this ages ago....probably claptrap, but who knows)

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

Same - I used to take loads of stuff to charity shops now I take it all to Cash 4 Clothes nr the tip and make a few pound - better than a kick in the teeth - they also take bric - a -brac I believe

Also Oxfam give you a £5 off voucher (when you spend £30) for M&S if you take a bag of clothes and at least one item is originally from Marks

 

[marky]

Nobody will go into cash for clothes, twice, the guy is horrendous, horrible, insulting, and does not want any customers in! but thankfully he is only there temporarily as I think Linda is off sick, expected to be back wednesday

 

[WhiteBakeCase]

Nobody will go into cash for clothes, twice, the guy is horrendous, horrible, insulting, and does not want any customers in! but thankfully he is only there temporarily as I think Linda is off sick, expected to be back wednesday

Absolutely agree. I was there at the weekend and the ald fella was in, whinging and moaning about too many customers making the door sensor bleep, and 'one of those days'. FYI, he's a local, and an ex-copper