The Products of Change member, Roberts Recycling – a leading textile recycling business here in the UK – has opened a new, 80,000sq ft recycling and distribution centre in Cheshire.
The five-million-pound investment is a ‘significant milestone’ for the family-run textiles recycling business, allowing the team to now double its output, giving it “the capacity to divert over one million items from landfill each week.”
“Our new site will go some way to meeting the expanding need for sustainable recycling solutions throughout the fashion industry,” said the team in an announcement posted to social media.
Established in 2009 out of a ‘passion to save the planet’, Roberts Recycling is now one of the UK’s leading sustainable textile recyclers and processors and provides clothes recycling services for some of the world’s biggest fashion brands, retailers, charities, and even local councils.
“Our timing couldn’t be better,” said the team. “With the fashion industry’s growing demand for sustainable solutions, our new site is perfectly positioned to meet those needs. We’re excited to play our part in making a positive impact on the environment.”
The company’s primary goal is to help UK brands avoid sending their returns and excess stock to incineration or landfill by collecting, sorting, and reselling ‘tons of fashion waste every week’. Roberts Recycling operates a nationwide clothing collection network that works with schools, supermarkets, charities, and council recycling sites.
In addition to sorting and exporting textiles, the team is now ramping up its in-house recycling efforts. Through its new Purpose Driven Products brand, Roberts Recycling will be turning non-reusable textiles into new, useful products “that will benefit both society and the planet.”
Roberts Recycling currently works with over 100 UK and European brands to divert an average of 800 tonnes of clothing from landfill each month, saving the equivalent of 10,700 tonnes of CO2eq each month.
The team boasts a clothing distribution network that covers Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia, Jordan, and the UAE.
