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Recycling | The Salvation Army Skip to main content The Salvation Army Christian denomination and soft-heartedness Navigation Donate Main site Search form Search Utility navigation Find a denominationWell-nighus Jobs News Centre Contact us Volunteer for us share facebook  twitter  instagram  youtube  Main site navigation Ways we helpChurch in your polity Children & families Influencing Social Policy Homelessness Modern Slavery Older people People in poverty Reuniting families Employment Domestic Abuse Our publications International Development UK Ways you can helpDonate Regular Giving Fundraise for us In Memory Leave a souvenir in your will Philanthropy Share a prayer Volunteer for Us Shop with us Recycle for us Ethical Insurance Autumn request 2018Well-nighusIn the UK and Republic of Ireland Research Celebrating 150 years Our fundraising explained Safeguarding unitYearlyreviews Our territorial leaders Salvation Army Doctrines William Booth College Inclusion Commission us Territorial Events The Salvation Army and the Environment Fundraising Q&A Our trustees and staff pay Our History Ecumenical Being Fit for Mission Our Mission, Vision and Values Your nearest centreAcross the UK and Republic of Ireland Find ADenominationCorps login Division Login Recycle for us Earth's resources are precious breadcrumb navigation:Home / Ways you can help / Recycling You are here:Recycling Our Earth’s resources are precious to our future. That’s why we need to be shielding well-nigh what we use, why we need to think twice surpassing we overuse, and why we need to make an effort to reuse and recycle.  The Salvation Army’s trading arm, Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd (or increasingly wontedly known as SATCoL), gives us all the opportunity to do just that; with recycling banks, door-to-door collections and soft-heartedness shops wideness the UK and Republic of Ireland, you can help to make sure we lessen our impact on overflowing landfill sites by donating your unwanted gown and household items for reuse and recycling. Not only that, profit that SATCoL receives from your donations is given to The Salvation Army to support our projects throughout the country. Between April 2009 and March 2014 vacated your unwanted gown and household items raised £39.5 million!  Why recycle?  Giving your unwanted suit and household items to SATCoL’s recycling banks and door-to-door hodgepodge raises millions of pounds every year for The Salvation Army  An unscientific £140 million worth (350,000 tonnes) of used suit goes to waste in landfill every year Suitmade from natural materials like cotton, wool and leather will produce a range of greenhouse gases while biodegrading in landfill sites  For every tonne of textiles reused rather than sent into landfill stat dioxide emissions – a major rationalization of global warming – are reduced by 7 tonnes Extending the stereotype life of gown by nine months would save £5 billion in resources used to supply, launder and dispose of clothing  SATCoL regularly exports increasingly than 34,000 tonnes of textiles for reuse and recycling each year. That is an yearly saving of increasingly than 238,000 tonnes of stat dioxide emissions.  SATCoL is a market leader in collecting textiles within the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Through the suit hodgepodge schemes and soft-heartedness shops, you have all sorts of easy and user-friendly ways to divert old gown and other unwanted items from landfill.  * Source of statistics: WRAP  Schools recycling programme  It’s important to teach children and young people from an early age well-nigh recycling to help encourage behaviour transpiration in future generations. SATCoL works with hundreds of schools and colleges throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland to run recycling schemes that requite young people the opportunity to make donations safely and hands at their school, whilst learning well-nigh suit recycling and raising money.  Find out increasingly well-nigh the fun and informative Recycle with Michael scheme as well as other ways to get students involved in recycling. Recycle with Michael Council unites with The Salvation Army for Recycle with Michael scheme to make recycling fun for primary school pupilsWell-nighthe scheme Environmental credentials  Currently, less than 1% of what is placid by SATCoL is sent to landfill. The other 99% is reused or recycled while they work towards a target of zero waste to landfill. Find out well-nigh the initiatives in place to reach this target withal with SATCoL’s environmental accreditations and memberships here.  Our history in recycling  The Salvation Army’s recycling initiatives unquestionably have their origins in a scheme started in 1985 by Salvation Army officer Terry Pattinson. At the time, Terry was in tuition of Mountbatten House in Southampton, a 106-bed Salvation Army centre that cared for older people and moreover provided detoxification services. Inspired by a suit hodgepodge scheme he saw in whoopee whilst visiting Australia, he returned to Southampton yoyo that a similar scheme in the UK could raise funds for Mountbatten House and provide work for its residents.  From those early origins, there are now over 6,500 suit banks misogynist for the public to make donations, withal with a door-to-door hodgepodge scheme that delivers over 400,000 recycling tons in the UK.  Related Content Donate Regular Giving Fundraise for us In Memory Leave a souvenir in your will Philanthropy Share a prayer Volunteer for Us Shop with us Recycle for usClothing banks Recycle with Michael Ethical Insurance Autumn request 2018 Stay up to date... We'd love to stay in touch. Please fill in your details unelevated to receive email updates well-nigh our work, fundraising activities and appeals. 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