Inditex to start home pickup of used garments

China: Inditex will start at-home pick up service in China for recycling garments. Inditex’ at-home pick up service for collecting used clothes will start this September and will initially be available in Beijing and Shanghai. Inditex has collected over 25,000 tonnes of garments from 21 markets till now. Also, the recycled textiles along with the sustainable raw materials were used in manufacturing of more than 73.6 million garments for Zara and Massimo Dutti’s ‘Join Life’ and Oysho’s ‘We are the change’ collections in 2017. China: Inditex will start at-home pick up service in China for recycling garments. Inditex’ at-home pick up service for collecting used clothes will start this September and will initially be available in Beijing and Shanghai. Inditex has collected over 25,000 tonnes of garments from 21 markets till now. Also, the recycled textiles along with the sustainable raw materials were used in manufacturing of more than 73.6 million garments for Zara and Massimo Dutti’s ‘Join Life’ and Oysho’s ‘We are the change’ collections in 2017. The company has planned further development on this project and has coordinated with MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for enhancing the process of recycling of used textiles and creation of new fibers using clean technology.