Our program with Upparel is currently under review. Please check this page again soon for updates.
Missing socks, worn-out towels or old t-shirts? Don’t throw them away.
Textile waste is one of Australia’s fastest-growing waste streams, with thousands of tonnes of clothing and household textiles ending up in landfill every year.
To help reduce textile waste, we partnered with Upparel to trial a simple and affordable textile recycling service for our residents. The program provided a convenient way to keep unwanted textiles out of landfill through reuse, repurposing and recycling.
Unlike many textile recycling programs, materials collected through Upparel are not sent offshore or to landfill. Instead, they are sorted and recovered in Australia, then transformed into UPtex, a fully circular material used in a range of products and applications
HomeCycle
Our HomeCycle program is currently being reviewed. To stay up to date when the program resumes, sign up to the Sustainable Whitehorse eNewsletter.
If you have other reusable items, including clothing, you can also use the Recycle Mate website or app to find your nearest alternative recycling drop-off point.
For items that are not suitable for reuse, book a hard waste collection or use one of our other waste services.