Textiles

Overview

A textile is defined as type of cloth or fabric, especially ones that have been woven. ‌

Clothes and textiles that are in good condition can be donated and sold for reuse. Items that aren’t suitable to be passed onto someone else can be recycled and made into new items, such as padding for chairs and car seats, cleaning cloths and industrial blankets. ‌

Macro Tonnage

The most recent information published by DEFRA is summarized in the pie chart below, with 175,526 tonnes of textiles generated in the UK in 2016 and is part of the broader tonnage summarized in UK Waste Tonnage:

Textile Wastes
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Data Table
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF)	5
Mining and Quarrying (MQ)	6
Industrial (Ind)	18,559
Construction (Con)	142
Commercial (Com)	10,224
Household (HH)	146,589

The macro numbers above do not breakdown the component elements of textiles, but the following textiles headers in the page are as handled by local authorities and as reported through WasteDataFlow (and included in this data are tonnages of carpets handled by local authorities).

Carpets

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 1000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes
Pembrokeshire County Council	Comingled recyclate	Materials recovery facility	A J Recycling Ltd	Meigan Wells, Blaenfodd, Boncath, Pembrokeshire	Carpets	7,459.55	{{{date}}}
Greater Manchester WDA (MBC)	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Econpro WDS Ltd (Carpets); 55 Hoghton Street, Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom	Carpets	6,276.34	{{{date}}}
Merthyr Tydfil CBC	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Bryn Quarry Ltd	Bryn Quarry Ltd, Gellia'R-Gwellt Uchaf, Gelligaer, Hengoed, Caerphilly	Carpets	6,273.94	{{{date}}}
Merseyside WDA (MBC)	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Phoenix Works, Phoenix Way, Burnely,BB11 5SX	Carpets	3,835.28	{{{date}}}
Staffordshire County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Tidysite Skip Services Ltd	Tidysite Skip Services Ltd, Parkhouse Ind Est, Parkhouse Road East, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire	Carpets	2,410.35	{{{date}}}
Cardiff County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Atlantic Recycling Ltd	Ty - To - Maen Farm, Newton Road, Rumney, Cardiff, Glamorgan	Carpets	2,350.16	{{{date}}}
Warrington Borough Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Site details not known	Unknown	Carpets	1,850.42	{{{date}}}
City and County of Swansea	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Neath Abbey Wharf, Neath, Neath Port Talbot [Wv1Der002/0/12.1] SA10 6BL	Carpets	1,825.84	{{{date}}}
Edinburgh, City of	Residual waste	RDF, autoclave, MHT or similar	Not Available	Not Available	Carpets	1,742.37	{{{date}}}
Ceredigion County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	L A S Waste Ltd	L A S Waste, Tregaron Road, Lampeter, Ceredigion	Carpets	1,675.12	{{{date}}}
Vale of Glamorgan Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	FCC Environmental NEW INNNew InnPontypoolLB3290HK	Carpets	1,424.16	{{{date}}}
Ceredigion County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	C B Environmental Ltd	Rheidol Recycling Park, Glan-Yr-Afon Ind Est, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion	Carpets	1,396.22	{{{date}}}
Halton Borough Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Veolia Environmental Services Merseyside & Halton Ltd	Stonebridge Lane, Gillmoss, Liverpool, Merseyside	Carpets	1,264.48	{{{date}}}
Carmarthenshire County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	CWM Environmental Ltd; Nantycaws Waste Management SiteLlanddarog RdNantycawsCarmarthenCarmarthenshire	Carpets	1,234.74	{{{date}}}
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Allensway Recycling Ltd	Prospect House, Holme On Spalding Moor, York, Yorkshire	Carpets	1,193.26	{{{date}}}
East Ayrshire	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Not Available	Not Available	Carpets	1,168.85	{{{date}}}
Wigan MBC	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	EconPro, Unit 13A, Deeside Industrial Estate (Zone 1 Central), Drome Road, Deeside. CH5 2LR	Carpets	1,016.62	{{{date}}}

Footwear only

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 200 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes
Warrington Borough Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Site details not known	Unknown	Footwear only	1,850.42	{{{date}}}
Greater Manchester WDA (MBC)	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	SWD Premier Clothing Exports Ltd; Unit 4f, Worsley Trading Estate, Lester Rd, Little Hulton, Manchester, Lancashire	Footwear only	629.14	{{{date}}}
Birmingham City Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Books Wilcox Beldray Works, Beldray Road, Bilston, Wolverhampton WV14 7NHTetiles and footwear a number of charities	Footwear only	503.55	{{{date}}}
North Lanarkshire	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Not Available	Not Available	Footwear only	463.01	{{{date}}}
Staffordshire County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Wilcox Industrial Supply Co.; Beldray WorksBeldray Road Bilston,West Midlands,	Footwear only	309.05	{{{date}}}
Kirklees MBC	Source segregated recyclate	Reuse (qu35)	Other/Exempt	St Vincent de Paul Society; Unit 1 Wellington ArcadeBrighouseWest Yorkshire	Footwear only	287.33	{{{date}}}
North Tyneside Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Salvation Army Trading Co Ltd	2-4 Bridge Street, Brechin, Angus	Footwear only	214.37	{{{date}}}

Textiles & footwear

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 3000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes

Textiles only

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 900 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes
Warrington Borough Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Site details not known	Unknown	Textiles only	1,850.42	{{{date}}}
Glasgow City	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Not Available	Not Available	Textiles only	1,804.52	{{{date}}}
Bromley LB	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Multiple destinations	Multiple	Textiles only	1,537.94	{{{date}}}
Edinburgh, City of	Source segregated recyclate	Reuse (qu35)	Not Available	Not Available	Textiles only	1,534.38	{{{date}}}
Merseyside WDA (MBC)	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Beldray Works, Beldray Road, Bilston, Wolverhampton, West Midlands	Textiles only	1,255.61	{{{date}}}