Sortile’s Post

As part of our ongoing partnership with Goodwill, ACP has facilitated the creation of four regional textile processing hubs within the Goodwill network. The hubs’ business plans support their core missions by leveraging the full spectrum of second life channels to steward used textiles to their next, highest use and value. This work, done with support from fellow recycling systems experts at Sortile and engagement from TOMRA, is a major unlock for scaled production of postconsumer textile recycling feedstock in North America.   “Goodwill is the original reuse organization, especially for textiles. Reuse remains core to our mission, and through our collaboration with ACP we want to ensure that textiles at the end of their usable or reusable lives remain in the circular economy.” – Joyel Bennett, SVP of Operations and Services at Goodwill of the Finger Lakes. Goodwill of the Finger Lakes leads the Northeast Hub, which represents nine Goodwill organizations located throughout the Northeast Corridor and serves over one-third of the US population. In collaboration with ACP, the Northeast Hub carried out a year-long sorting study which showed they have the potential to provide over 10 million lbs. of cotton feedstock, 7 million lbs. of polycotton feedstock, and 5 million lbs. of polyester feedstock to textile recyclers annually.   “The collaborative model we’ve developed for the Northeast Goodwill Hub provides the scale to meet the tonnage demand and single point of contact brands and recyclers need for sourcing no longer wearable textiles for the feedstock your future customers expect.” – Jennifer Lake, CEO at Goodwill of the Finger Lakes.   In our continuous efforts to #catalyzecollaborations, we encourage recyclers to connect with our partners at each of the Goodwill hubs to bring more post-consumer feedstock into circular systems!