As one of Europe's leading textile recycling companies, TEXAID is continually optimizing its working processes and quality standards, and guarantees ecologically sustainable and high-quality collection, sorting and recycling of used textiles.
Since 2013, TEXAID has offered in-shop collections in collaboration with selected clothing stores, enabling customers to donate used textiles while shopping. So far, this has been run under the REVANT brand.
Anyone looking around for a new outfit at Charles Vögele can at the same time also get rid of their old clothes there and receive a voucher to the value of ten Francs. In collaboration with TEXAID, the Swiss fashion company is getting involved in finding the best way to recycle unwanted textiles.
The famous red-and-white TEXAID collecting sacks are pushed through mailboxes every year and herald the next street collection. For the sake of the environment, these are now made in part from recycled material.
Time and again we receive not just textiles but also used toys at our sorting facility in Schattdorf. We give those in good condition to the central aid supplies facility, a project of the '3HF Stiftung' foundation in Switzerland. They in turn pass on the toys to needy families with children in Haiti.
In collaboration with the Practical Environmental Protection Foundation (known by its German acronym PUSCH ), TEXAID has compiled a study dossier to teach middle school and high school students about the role played by used clothing in the global use of resources.
From 1st September 2015 onwards, the TEXAID location in western Switzerland will be in Yverdon. TEXAID is moving into the new offices along with STRID, who take care of refuse disposal in over 64 communities in Vaud Canton, and other companies.