Raise funds for your school and recycle with ‘Cash for Clobber’
2008 sees the fourth year of Cookstown Textile Recyclers’ Cash for Clobber scheme. Cash for Clobber aims to encourage textile recycling within your school by exchanging bags of used and unwanted clothes for cash – each filled bin liner-sized bag can be exchanged for a set amount of cash, with a further amount per bag going to the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children (NICFC).
Therefore, the more clothes you collect, the more money your school will earn and the more cash will be raised for the NICFC. Cash for Clobber does not charge a collection fee. Principally, the scheme is aimed at raising awareness of textile recycling among children, demonstrating the necessity in the ‘developed world’ to reduce, reuse and recycle.
We also aim to show the benefits that recycling brings to the Third World – generating a cleaner, brighter future for all. Any clothes collected from schools that cannot be reworn, are recycled into upholstery filling or cleaning wipes for the automotive industry.
Good quality clothes are sold at very low prices in markets in Africa, thus creating thriving businesses for African people and giving them access to affordable clothing that they otherwise wouldn’t own.
Subsequently, hundreds of jobs have been created locally and in Africa. And, the scheme is not just open to schools!! Girls’ and Boys’ Brigades, scout and guide troops, community and youth organizations, sports clubs and just about everybody can get in on the recycling act.
