Islanders are being encouraged to donate any school uniforms that are no longer required, either because a child has outgrown it or they have now left that school.
As the Summer holidays get underway, parents across the Island are being asked to consider donating unwanted clothing such as school uniforms.
There are many opportunities to either donate clothes for free or sell them. Many schools operate a reuse or thrift shop for reusable uniforms and there are also local Island Facebook community groups that are specifically for school uniform reuse.
If you can’t donate, don’t reach for the waste bag — the Isle of Wight Council’s waste partners collect clean, unwanted clothes and textiles on your recycling day.
The service is easy to use:
- Place unwanted textiles or clothes separately in a standard plastic shopping bag or a clear or white sack. This is so the collection crew can see it is only textiles in the bag
- Leave the bag to the side of your recycling bin or green gull sack
- The bag is then collected by crews separate to the rest of the recycling. This is sent away to be either reused or recycled into new products such as mattress fillings
The crew cannot take bulky items such as duvets, rugs, pillows or cushions.
Isle of Wight Council’s strategic manager for the environment, Natasha Dix, has said:
“Please don’t place textiles in with your household waste or recycling bin or sack. Textiles can become tangled in the machinery at the Forest Park Treatment Centre.
Article continues below this advertisement “This causes blockages which stop the machinery operating. Staff have to shut down the treatment centre to untangle the blockage – which can also be very dangerous, depending on where the blockage is.
“By collecting your unwanted textiles separately on recycling day, we can all play our part in trying to avoid this and divert textiles from landfill or incineration.”
Clothing and textiles can also be donated at bring bank sites across the Island or at many local charities.
Can we donate our kids as well?
Oh dear, 1 week down & only 5 weeks left lol
Yes but it will mean giving up Thousands extra in tax credits or universal credit then, the subsidised free rent, free council tax, free gym membership, free prescriptions and dental care for whole family, extra help with food and energy, free car if one or more has an ‘isim’ as most seem to claim now.
So I guess you will ensure they stay, send them to get a free bag of food, and keep the easy life of doing a few short hours for good income and little expenditure
Problem is all the low life who get us workers to fund their charity kept children via tax credits and universal credit, with free rent ,free c.tax free school meals, transport, dental care and prescriptions along with thousands extra a year, GET their uniforms free anyway.
So only the workers on low wages are suffering.
SEE these 16 hours a week ‘workers’ as what they are, takers from the pot, paying no tax as low hours, but take thousand a year and still get everything FREE.