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Posted: Friday 29 May 2009

From Clothes to Cash

Pupils at Kingarth Street had a lesson in recycling and fundraising when they organised a Rag Bag collection on 13 May. By recycling unwanted clothing, the EcoSchools committee raised £495 which will go towards developing the Eco garden and conservation area at Kingarth Street this summer.

EcoSchools coordinator Anne Smart explains that textiles are sorted into about 40 different types, graded according to quality and then baled at the factory in Denny, Central Scotland, for reuse or recycling. Good quality textiles are exported to parts of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, providing good quality affordable second hand clothing. Poor quality textiles are shredded and used as mattress fillers and industrial wiping cloths e.g. for oil and printing industries. Rag Bag staff picked the bags up, weighed them and within a week or so the school received a cheque.

Rag Bag Collection