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About Stamford's Curbside Textile Recycling

The City of Stamford provides curbside textile recycling through its partner vendor, HELPSY.  Residents can now recycle unwanted textiles by booking an appointment with HELPSY.  For assistance with which materials can be recycled through this program, please reference Helpsy's materials list here. Please bag and place textiles on the curb the morning of your scheduled pick up.

Schedule a home pickup by:

- Visiting www.helpsy.co/stamfordct

- Emailing info@helpsy.co

- Calling 800-244-6350

More About Textile Recycling

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), more than 84% of old clothes, shoes, belts, handbags, and textile items end up in a landfill or an incinerator. On average, that works out to about 85 pounds of textile items per person each year. As a result, textiles make up more than 6% of all the residential and municipal trash in the US.

HELPSY is a for profit B Corp with an environmental mission to radically change the way people think about clothing recycling. We make reusing and recycling your clothes and shoes more convenient and easier than ever. The largest clothing collector in the Northeast US, HELPSY has over 2,400 collection containers across ten states, vast experience hosting clothing drives and we also offer curbside textile recycling.  And we're still growing.  We collected over 30 million pounds of clothes last year!

It's hard to believe but over 85% of clothes wind up in the trash!  It's the norm to recycle plastics, glass, metal and paper but sadly clothes, shoes, and accessories have long been ignored. In fact, 10% of our landfills are textiles. That's 81 pounds per person, per year. Makes zero sense to us either."