The Green Door: Bags made from 100% recycled clothing

Recycling textiles saves energy because a garment re-used is a garment that doesn't have to be manufactured. It also saves the energy otherwise used in processing raw wool and cotton, or manufacturing synthetic textiles.

Recycling textiles save water because some textile industrial processes use an awful lot of it. If everyone in the UK bought just one reclaimed woollen garment each year, we would save about 370 million gallons of water - more than the contents of an average UK reservoir.

Recycling textiles saves natural resources such as the petroleum-based constituents of synthetic materials and the dyes used to colour cotton and wool.

Recycling textiles reduces landfill because although they only make up about 2% of household waste, that's still 2,400 tonnes to find space for!