How to recycle clothing that are stained and torn?
If the clothing is 100% cotton, it’s COMPOSTABLE! I’ve been reading all about composting on instructables.com and we’re making our own composter today! I’ve been saving the legs from cutoff jeans (cut up like crude confetti) and even dryer lint to use as some of the dry matter in our compost. Polyester and rayon clothing won’t work for composting – it has to be natural fibers.
If you don’t compost, find someone who does. We’re also looking for offices that want to get rid of shredded paperwork because our household produces way more vegetable and fruit matter scraps than dry papery matter and there has to be a balance when composting.
Another thing that I did with thrashed clothing is to make it into cloth diapers. The “new” cloth diapers are really awesome and have removable inserts that are just basically lots of layers of cloth sewn in a rectangle, and these inserts are then inserted into the crotch area of the cloth diaper between the outer waterproof layer and the inner cushy layer that touches baby. This worked brilliantly for our last 2 children and I felt great about finding a 2nd life for our thrashed clothes and sewing scraps that would otherwise be discarded. Non-natural fabrics can be used in cloth diapering – in fact, polar fleece was very helpful.
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