Trade Not Aid (TNA)
We travel the world selling and creating jobs and markets so we can recycle 100% of whatever you give us. How did Trade Not Aid evolve. Many years ago it was thought “Aids” came from Africa. We went to investigate and we discovered the truth is not a nice picture in our opinion.
Imagine mothers trying to sell perishable goods like tomatoes with no way of been able to preserve them as they go bad, some having to prostitute themselves to feed their children. This goes far as to affect everyone from babies to adults alike.
What would you do if you could? So we did and Trade Not Aid TNA was conceived and is still helping today although in a more modern format.
Old to new again
Recycling old into new
When we received all used clothing, we avert them from ending up in landfill.
We sort out the good ones for recycle process, which are given freely to families here in Western Australia with genuine needs and the others are sent to Africa as trade which create jobs to many families to sustain their homes without having to worry about perishable goods or ways to preserve them.
Recycling worst into better
20-25% of the clothing we received are in a very bad state that we can't recycle or give them away to families in need.
We cut up all the old, damaged clothing. We remove all the buttons, zips and foreign objects, we then put them through a metal detector and block or bag them according to our customers requirements. We sell these rag wipers to engineers, painters, mechanics or anyone wishing to wiper their hands clean, oil spill, workshop cleaning and many other purpose.
Unique to E’Co is our ability to collect the dirty contaminated rag and dispose of them in an environmentally friendly way and not simply land fill them.
So if you or your company use rag wipers, please help us and ask them to contact us for a competitive price and excellent service.
Recycling into new clothing
5-10% is recycled into new clothing.
Things like your sweaters, trousers, jackets are made up and include fibres like wool, cotton or polyester. We create jobs separating these materials and then let machinery make it back into yarn and make that new garment you are just about to buy in the supermarket.
The UN-recycled items
5% is totally useless but we still Recycle it
So what happens to that very small percentage of scrap that would normally go in the landfill.
We have found a way, along with our collections of dirty, contaminated rag wipers to use them as a feed stock for another environmentally friendly process which means we do not have to landfill
1%.
For commercial reasons we cant make this public knowledge or our competitors would simply copy what we are doing. However you can be rest assured we will continue to pursue every means possible to maintain our claims ofClosing the Textile Recycling Loop.