TerraCycle box - one year later
10 May 2020 08:00 amLast April 2nd1, I ordered and received a fabric recycling box from TerraCycle. It was $103 for an 11"x11"x20" box, but it was slightly smaller than that.
It filled up super quick2. So I p a c k e d it. Tiny scraps leftover from cutting, clothes that I replaced that were stained or not structurally sound anymore. Thread. A lot of things I wouldn't think could be recycled.
It effectively took a year to fill it to where I really couldn't put anymore in. With the current situation, I held on to it a little longer because I wasn't sure about shipping.
Instructions for returning it a year later were hard to find - they weren't in any of the emails I received. It's not obvious on the website, either, it's in their FAQs. You look at the label, figure out the shipper, and drop it off.
I also recycled some items at H&M that were too big to fit in the box. You get a 15% off voucher3. And it's free. But do I really want to buy their clothes? After getting some of their t-shirts with weird fitting, not really.
Either way, I have to go out somewhere and carry a thing.
So, observations, not conclusions.
1 Yes, I know, it feels like approx. 567 days since "last" April 2nd, but I mean 2019.
2 Like, maybe two months?
3 With a very old expiration date!
It filled up super quick2. So I p a c k e d it. Tiny scraps leftover from cutting, clothes that I replaced that were stained or not structurally sound anymore. Thread. A lot of things I wouldn't think could be recycled.
It effectively took a year to fill it to where I really couldn't put anymore in. With the current situation, I held on to it a little longer because I wasn't sure about shipping.
Instructions for returning it a year later were hard to find - they weren't in any of the emails I received. It's not obvious on the website, either, it's in their FAQs. You look at the label, figure out the shipper, and drop it off.
I also recycled some items at H&M that were too big to fit in the box. You get a 15% off voucher3. And it's free. But do I really want to buy their clothes? After getting some of their t-shirts with weird fitting, not really.
Either way, I have to go out somewhere and carry a thing.
So, observations, not conclusions.
1 Yes, I know, it feels like approx. 567 days since "last" April 2nd, but I mean 2019.
2 Like, maybe two months?
3 With a very old expiration date!