Textile Recycling
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We offer textile recycling!

For a charge of $3 per pound, we will send your unusable textile waste to Debrand's sortation facility in Metro Vancouver
Recycling is only accepted on the last Saturday of each month. Because we are extremely limited in space, please hold on to your fabric until this day.
 


Debrand combines in-house tech-enabled sortation with expert solution partnerships to
efficiently send textiles to their next-best use. Through their recycling and responsible disposal
partnerships, your textile waste can become fiber fill, insulation or energy, instead of going
straight to a landfill and polluting our earth.
Learn more about Debrand and their ecosystem approach to textile sustainability here.

We can accept all types of fibers to be recycled. This includes stained clothes, curtains, bed linens, serger scraps, thread, and more. Children's clothes to stained to go to the thrift store? Jeans with too many holes? That garment sewing project you cut incorrectly and never finished? Fluffy offcuts from your serger?
We'll take it!
Please feel free to phone us at (778)433-6253 if you are unsure about what you're bringing.

If you are bringing in usable fabric donation at the same time, please pack these separately so that we can accurately weigh the recycling.

The $3 per pound that you pay for this recycling service is what it costs us to pack, ship, and recycle. Any excess funds are applied to our next month's recycling shipment, if we receive a fabric donation that we are unable to send back into circulation due to stains or other damage. 

Donate to our Waste Reduction Fund


$958.34
648lbs

Money donated to our Waste Reduction Fund does not stay in our pockets. Any remaining funds after our recycling costs are forwarded to projects and organizations in the community that are waste-reduction focused. Thank you for your support!

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About The Green Thimble

We are a sewing store dedicated to making sewing as sustainable as possible. We offer sewing machines, supplies, and accessories for sewing enthusiasts, both new and recirculated. With a passion for creativity and craftsmanship, we strive to inspire and support sewists of all levels, offering a diverse range of products and expert guidance.