Lindsey Troop of FABSCRAP helps to reduce textile waste that clogs landfills

Let’s say that you have just cleaned out your closet and you are proud to take the giant bag of old clothes to your local Goodwill or Salvation Army. Did you ever wonder what happens to the mound of goods in these donation piles? In 2018, 17 million tons of textile waste ended up in landfills, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, making up 5.8 percent of the total  Municipal Solid Waste generation that year. The volume of clothing Americans throw away each year has doubled in the last 20 years, from 7 million to 14 million tons. According to the World Resources Institute, it takes 2,700 liters of water to make one cotton shirt. Textiles can take up to 200+ years to decompose in landfills. We delve into this topic with our guest Lindsey Troop, who is the Regional Manager at FABSCRAP, which is a textile recycling non-profit dedicated to ending the fashion industry’s commercial textile waste problem, diverting as much unused material as possible from being landfilled or incinerated. For more information go to FABSCRAP.org #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness and tweet us your thoughts @tmshadesofgreen