Where to donate unwanted clothes?

It is estimated that the equivalent of 442 million euros worth of clothes are thrown away every year in France. Judging by the amount of clothes that sleep in our closets and that we wear only too rarely, this figure could be significantly reduced if the gift reflex were widespread enough. In fact, once you have reduced your wardrobe to the essentials, the items you have to part with will benefit from being given a second life rather than being thrown away, especially since the recycling sector textiles in France is underperforming.

Donate to an association

There is no shortage of charities just waiting to receive donations. For the poorest people, being able to continue to dress is an important means of maintaining one's dignity. This is why the clothes collected must not have any major defects. Whether it's Emmaus, the French Red Cross or the Secours Populaire. To find out the collection points closest to your home anywhere in France, you can go directly to their site. There are some 2,300 for the Red Cross and nearly 500 for Emmaus.

Some structures have more specific needs, such as La Cravate Solidaire, which includes suits and other tailors to support the professional reintegration of precarious people. Finally, some innovations constitute a compromise between sale and donation, such as the Tremma d'Emmaüs platform, from individual to individual, which donates the proceeds of the sale to a solidarity project initiated by the association.

Give them directly to their new owner

Another easy way to give your clothes around. This may be the case for children's clothes, for example, which have only been worn a few times and can be used by others. Whether the approach concerns friends, family or a wider circle of acquaintances, this method also makes it possible to maintain a form of social connection in the donation process, which the intermediary of associations and other platforms can sometimes lack.

In this same perspective, barter is also coming back to the fore. And this through physical events such as “Free Troc Parties”, listed, when they were still possible, on the paris-friendly.fr website, or online, via platforms such as Troc Vestiaire.

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