Retold Bags
These bags are the easiest and most convenient way to keep your clothes, household textiles and fabric scraps out of landfill. All postage is pre-paid, so you pay no extra shipping fees. Start your recycling practice today!
Benefits
- Divert your unwanted items from landfills!
- Holds approx 5lbs.
- We accept all kinds of textiles!
- Our bags are household compostable
- All our recycling is domestic - only approved B2B projects go offshore
- You'll get Retold Rewards with any subscription!
Where does it all go?
Next Gen fabric houses
These guys break down textiles to make saleable new textiles
Thrift Stores
Let someone new love your old goods. It's Vintage, dahling...
rag companies
Rags are created and sold for use in the hospitality and medical fields primarily
downcyclers
Insulation, car seat inners, punching bags, manufacturing and more!
How it works
Gather your gear & get your bags
Collect all the textiles in your home – that's right, we take pretty much everything*Then order your bag or sign up for a Subscription. Subscriptions are great for families, people who love shopping or those who need a prompt to cleanse... (Hands up if you drive around with bags of clothes in your trunk?!)
Drop it like it’s hot
Fill your bag - with one sock or cram it full - and drop it off to your post box, mail room, door man etc. Each bag has a pre-paid label attached so you'll never have to wait in line at the Post Office.We'll then begin telling a new story with your unwanted items...
We’ll do the right thing
Together with our partners, we'll sift and sort your goods, sending them to thrift stores, donation centers, recyclers, resellers and up-cyclers. We're proud to say nothing will go from your Retold bag to landfill!
OUR IMPACT
184 tons of clothing recycled
That's the equivalent to...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 540,000 kg
Conserving 324 million liters of water
Saving around 900 tons of raw materials
*Estimates based on studies from water.org, EPA, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.