Our mission - keep clothes out of landfills

 

We want to reduce post-consumer textile waste by making used clothing collection free and easy to then put the garments we collected to productive use in a circular economy of reuse, recycling and re-manufacture.

A Brief History…

Before SCRAP, CEO Patrick Metellus, was an avid contributor to charity and community work ever since he was a little boy, thanks to his mother’s teachings. For as far back as he can remember, she collected used clothing from friends and family, shipped it to Haiti where she was originally from, and together with Patrick, they would travel there to distribute it to less fortunate people. That’s where he understood that a piece clothing that he might no longer want, can have a second life in the wardrobe of someone for whom it will be new and exciting.

His partner, Paloma, has experience working for Victoria’s Secret, Kate Spade, and Barneys New York, gaining firsthand insights into the behind-the-scenes of the fashion industry.

Together, they aim to scale their vision for a circular fashion economy and shift the industry toward a more transparent and sustainable future.

To learn more about Patrick and the history of SCRAP follow his LinkedIn profile.


Where do your donations go?

Clothing donations made to SCRAP are separated into two streams.

About 10% of donations we receive are barely used designer pieces. We ship those pieces to our partner Tersus Solutions for serious cleaning, before finding a new owner for them in local boutiques, like Bitter Grace.

We aim to recycle the majority of clothing that we collect. We currently put this clothing through an automated sorting process in New Jersey, run by our partner Sort & Export.

We are currently recycling cotton materials using Renewcell’s technology in Sweden and exploring wool recycling with iinouiio in England.

Our long-term aim is to create new products from the materials recycled from your donations, a truly circular economy of fashion!

Our Impact

Thanks to scheduled clothing pick-ups, generous drop-offs, and corporate contributions we collected nearly 20,000 pounds of clothing, saving the Earth…

  • ~ 30 tons of CO2

  • ~ 115 milion liters of water

  • ~ 3 tons of fertilizer

  • ~ 14 liters of pesticides