King County and Seattle Public Utilities have launched Threadcycle, a joint effort to reduce the estimated 40,000 tons of clothes, shoes and linens that area residents and businesses send to landfills each year.
The campaign aims to educate the public about the wide range of conditions in which those items are accepted.
To give new life to these materials and decrease the amount of textiles that end up in landfills, the Threadcycle campaign is partnering with nine organizations and businesses to educate the public.
Campaign partners who accept clothes, shoes and linens in any condition (except wet, mildewed or contaminated with hazardous materials) are Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound, Seattle Goodwill, Northwest Center, Salvation Army Family Thrift Stores, SightConnection, TexGreen, USAgain and Value Village.
The nearest Value Village is at 5530 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway S.E.
Learn more about Threadcycle at www.kingcounty.gov/threadcycle.