Recycling Underwear Is Now A Thing

Paper, glass, plastic: sorted. Old jeans: donated. But underwear? For years the answer's been "bin it," because most recycling programs won't touch it (fair enough, hygiene-wise). But that results in millions of pairs in landfill every year, doing nothing useful for anyone.

Enter Project Underwear, by Textile Recyclers Group, a legit way to recycle your clean, worn-out, end-of-life underwear instead of chucking it.

Here's how it works:

• Order a recycling satchel
• Fill it with your clean, past-it undies
• Post it back (prepaid, so no excuses)
• They process it and turn it into new materials

That's it. No sorting dilemmas, no guilt trip.

Why bother? Because textiles pile up fast, and most of what we throw out still has value. Recycling it means less landfill, fewer virgin materials needed, and one small win for the circular economy. Your old jocks aren't rubbish, they're raw material with somewhere better to be.

Project Underwear is one part of Textile Recyclers Group's bigger push to deal with the textile waste nobody's thinking about, helping households, schools and businesses keep usable material out of landfill.

You don't need a lifestyle overhaul to make a difference. Just make a better call next time you're clearing out the underwear drawer.

Ready to recycle your old underwear? Check out Project Underwear and give your past-it pairs a second life. 

A quick note: we're still checking whether Undercovers can go through this particular program, given the layers involved in period underwear. So hold off sending yours in until we've confirmed. We'll update you here as soon as we know.