Can you recycle curtains & cushion covers?

💚 Reuse or donate

Charity shops sell them well; textile banks take tired ones.

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Curtains are strong charity-shop sellers and reuse networks want them for furnishing move-on homes. Worn ones go to textile banks as rags. Curtain hooks and rings off first (metal ones to scrap).

Which bin does it go in?

Charity shops sell them well; textile banks take tired ones.

Before throwing it away, see reuse, repair and donation routes.

Background: Reuse, repair or donate before recycling.

Also searched as: cushions, curtains, blinds fabric.

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