Where to find cloth recycling near me
June 17, 2025Cloth recycling near me. Happy Easter! I hope that you have been enjoying a Creme Egg or two! Easter is a very old tradition, originally religious. Alongside nibbling some delicious chocolate and perhaps having some fun with friends like an easter egg hunt, it might be a good juncture to have a clear out of any unwanted clothes. After all, the hot weather is just around the corner! So time to get out your beautiful summer dresses and delicate shirts, have a look at them and decide if you want to wear them or donate. Same goes for your winter things – instead of packing it all away, perhaps you’d like to think about whether it is worth keeping.
The Easter tradition which we have now in the UK revolves around bunny rabbits, eggs, and chocolate. Mainly it is very simple: if you have kids they will expect at least one easter egg on Easter day. If you go to visit friends, they will require one from them, too. In fact, according to a survey conducted by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) it is estimated that each child in Britain consumes an average of eight easter eggs per year. It’s not specified what size they are. In 2023, parent spent about £25 on average per child on easter chocolate, and friends and family together spent a further £31 on each child. That’s over fifty quid’s worth of easter eggs! And that’s just on children.
Cloth recycling near me – The Easter Tradition
Easter Eggs. Image copyright free via FreeImagesLive.
Two thirds of people in Britain buy chocolate at Easter, and we eat 8kg a year – most of it at Easter. So if you are a grown up, you may also be reasonably hoping to get an easter egg from your other half or perhaps from your mum still! She might get you a chocolate bunny, which is ok, or recently Waitrose in particular has got creative with chocolate avocados and other shapes. There are also lots of yummy vegan easter eggs available now. They used to be rather austere, in dark chocolate, but now there are plenty made with rice, oat or nut milk and more sugar as well.
H&M and American Eagle Outfitters have drop boxes where you can take your old things whilst browsing for new ones. You can also drop them at a thrift store which is a great place for donating clothing and textile waste. Instead of hunting for new fast fashion, you can also try searching the Salvation Army for new clothes and shoes. Other local organizatons take items in good condition and you can use clothing recycling bins too.
Textile recycling places take tons of textile and solid waste in poor condition via recycling collection 95 percent of which can be reused or recycled according to material type to make a million tons of new clothes.
Tastier?
My mum always said that the chocolate from easter eggs has a particular taste and it’s possible she’s right – perhaps it’s a different formula to achieve the hollow egg shape without it falling apart? But most likely not, it’s just that the thin layers make it taste different, like eating food from a spoon or fork will change the perceived taste as well. We used to live quite near the Thornton’s Chocolate factory in Derbyshire, and around easter local market stalls would sell bags of broken easter eggs cheaply. It was so fun to get them! sometimes they were even iced with messages and we’d try to put them back together like a jigsaw puzzle. Now I need a quick chocolate break! Cloth recycling near me.
Very Traditional Tradition
I love that this tradition still exists, like all our traditions. I think sometimes people look with wonderment on things like Spain’s frequent fiestas or Eastern Europe’s Saint’s Days which are still observed. But we forget we have plenty of our own. And not as quaint old customs but very much living and breathing.
Easter eggs came about because eggs are a symbol of new life at springtime. Easter also comes after Lent, which is when eating eggs or other rich food is not allowed. People’s hens did not stop laying during this time. So presumably there was a small excess. You could then give these away, or afford to decorate and not eat.
To make the occasion more fancy, people started filling hollowed out, decorated hens’ eggs with sweets and small toys. Then they started to make them out of sugar paste or marzipan, and decorate them. But these were still in the size and shape of hen’s eggs, not the massive ones we have today. By the Victorian times, they were making egg shapes out of cardboard. This was a lot easier than the fiddly process of hollowing actual eggs. And it was less likely to break! These became a bit bigger. You can still get them and they are a very cute, re-usable idea. I have seen egg-shaped tins, and ones made from papier-mâché as well.
Cloth recycling near me – Russians Do It Better
Over in Russia, one of the many countries that also has the Easter Egg tradition, hollow eggs were being made in a material as far from cardboard as you can get. The jewellers Fabergé made their famous eggs with gold and diamonds for the Russian royal family.
In this period chocolate was becoming popular – but very expensive. So they made solid chocolate easter eggs to give to people as a sign of status. Eventually, chocolate companies worked out how to make them hollow. It is said that the chocolate company JS Fry & Sons came up with a machine to do it in 1873 – 150 years ago! And subsequently commissioned a lot more machines, so popular was the concept. So they could be cheaper, and everyone could partake in exchanging them. And today, we do it very well!
