Reusable Items Collection

Your old clothes and textiles don't belong in landfill

Missing socks, worn-out towels, old t-shirts? Don't throw them away.

Textile waste is one of Australia's fastest growing waste streams, with thousands of tonnes of clothing and household textiles ending up in landfill each year.

To help reduce textile waste, we are partnering with Upparel to offer our residents a simple and affordable way to recycle unwanted textiles through reuse, repurposing and recycling.

Unlike many textile recycling programs, nothing collected through Upparel is sent offshore or to landfill. Materials are sorted, recovered and transformed into UPtex, a fully circular resource used across a range of applications.

As part of a trial running until 30 June 2026, Council is covering most of the cost of the service, with residents paying just $5 per booking.

What can be recycled?

Upparel accepts most textiles, including:

  • Clothing
  • Shoes
  • Towels
  • Bed linen
  • Manchester
  • Accessories
  • Other household textiles

How it works

  1. Book your collection online
  2. Pack your unwanted textiles into a cardboard box from home (up to 10kg, box size 46 x 41 x 42cm).
  3. Use the link in your confirmation email to book an Australia Post drop-off or courier collection.
  4. Print and attach the shipping labels to your box.
  5. Drop your box at your local Australia Post outlet or leave it out for collection.
  6. Upparel will sort the materials for reuse, repurposing and recycling.

Book your collection

One booking is available per household until 30 June 2026, or until all bookings have been allocated.

Book your collection: Textile Recycling Collection – Whitehorse City Council - UPPAREL

 

HomeCycle 

Our HomeCycle program is currently being reviewed. To stay up to date when the program resumes, sign up to the Sustainable Whitehorse eNewsletter. 

If you have other reusable items, including clothing, you can also use the Recycle Mate website or app to find your nearest alternative recycling drop-off point.

For items that are not suitable for reuse, book a hard waste collection or use one of our other waste services.