Clothing Bin, Child Cancer Foundation. Photo / Supplied
Useful items go to charity shops, others become rags for business.
Q. Recently you sorted the problem of getting rid of scraps of fabric. I have a similar question - how to recycle old clothes - clean but no longer wearable. We used to be able to put them into the "rag bags" which were delivered to our letterboxes. However, I
haven't seen one of those for years.
There were also the clothing bins, some of which used to take rags. However, they all now say they want "good used clothing".
Is there anywhere, preferably in South Auckland, which collects and recycles rags?
Hilary Cheeseman, South Auckland.
I'm surprised that you don't still get the pink plastic rag bags in your letterbox: I do, albeit somewhat irregularly.
However, you may still put clean but worn-out clothing in the charity clothing bins. A friend who used to run a series of such bins told me that any clothing that was recyclable was passed on to charity shops. Those articles that could not be so used were sold to companies that turn them into rags for use in such businesses as garages and machine shops and car painters and the like.
Q. I notice that signage on the motorway now calls the suburb Green Lane, whereas local signage has it as one word. Is this a mistake, or have we all been wrong all these years? Kathy Scott, Auckland.
