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Recycling or Resale

Have you already checked all the options before you want to recycle your favorite product? If your product has a fault, you may be able to fix it yourself with the help of our Repair Guide. If you are sure that you want to part ways with a piece of clothing that is still usable, you can easily resell DRYKORN items using the tips in our Resale Guide or simply give them away to family or friends. 

Garments not garbage

Don't throw your old clothes in the household waste. Textiles have to be collected separately – and depending on the condition of your piece, there are three routes: resale, donation, or a textile collection point for recycling.* Which one fits, you'll find below.

Send us your old DRYKORN pieces

When a DRYKORN piece is beyond repair, beyond resale and beyond donation, it still holds fibres. Send it back to us (see address below) and we will pass it on to our partner TURNS® circular system, who will find the best way for the old garment. Depending on the fiber blend & condition of the garment, this can mean fibre-to-fibre recycling but it can also mean incineration due to unusability, which is no recycling stream.

Why textile recycling is hard
Most garments are fibre blends, and blends are difficult to separate. Sorting is still largely manual work, and the technology that recovers fibres at industrial scale only accepts part of what it receives. This is why a collected garment does not automatically become a new garment.
 

_{*Exceptions:
If your textiles are heavily soiled with paint or chemicals, they can only be disposed of in household waste. Special clothing such as fire or chemical resistant clothing is often lined with toxic substances and must be disposed of as hazardous waste. Contact your local recycling facility in this case.}