Fabric

Textile waste accounts for 4% to landfill in Aotearoa every year. 

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Buying natural fibre fabrics will reduce the volume of non-biodegradable waste.

Fabric rolls and remnants are welcome at the ReUse Academy and secondhand/charity shops. 

There are cloth-bag making groups in Whanganui whose mission is to ensure no-one needs to use a plastic shopping bag. They love receiving good quality fabric to make into bags.

Contact can be made with these two groups via Facebook: Morsbags, Whanganui (Te Awa Pod), and Plastic Free Whanganui. Plastic Free Whanganui runs the Inside>Out bag-making project at Whanganui Prison. Fabric donations can be left at the WhEB.

The Whanganui Bag Recycling Project is seeking donations of old pillowcases, fabric and sewing supplies, including thread, to make more bags. Donations can be dropped off at the Koha Shed in Duncan Street.

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Fabric unable to be refashioned into something else can be recycled through the SaveMart bins at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre and other locations around our region.

Please keep polyester/nylon fabric from landfill wherever possible.