Textile waste is an increasing challenge in the North Sea Region. This also leads to problems in Hamburg, particularly when it comes to separating textiles that can be reused or recycled from those that can no longer be used, often due to so-called fast fashion.
Our Stadtreinigung Hamburg pilot is making a small contribution to the solution with its EcoHHub. Instead of ending up at the recycling center, textile waste in Hamburg increasingly ends up with container operators such as the Red Cross or in household waste. Stadtreinigung Hamburg now wants to change this with new used clothing containers.
Textile container at the EcoHHub station at Kaltenkircher Platz
The German Red Cross disposes of two to three tons of unusable clothing every week in the Hanseatic city. To change this, more than 20 containers have recently been set up throughout the city, with a total of 30 planned.
“We want to make it easier for people in Hamburg to dispose of old textiles so they still have a chance of being recycled,” explains Johann Gerner-Beuerle from Stadtreinigung Hamburg.
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In MoLo Hubs we are also working on textile waste and circularity in other pilot regions, such as the City of Aalborg and the City of Borås.
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Source: LIHH & NDR