To recycle pants/tights- but where?

[MyCatEatsPrawnCrackers]

Obviously I'm not going to donate old saggy tights and underwear to a charity shop but neither do I want to throw them away and add to land fill. There are various ways of recycling bras but what do you do about tights/knickers etc?

Would the charity shop take them in a bag marked as rags? Thought some did as they still get some payment for these.

Many charity shops will indeed take them in bags marked Rags. They want any clean textiles.

Appreciate that not all councils will, but we have textile recycling bins dotted around, and I think at the recycling centre (they keep renamining it, but effectively the tip) as well.

Cloth recycling at the tip or supermarket bins that are general clothes ones rather than specific charities

Oxfam will take them. Unsellable textiles are sold to be recycled into mattress filling, carpet underlay etc. Just tell them that they are for Wastesaver so some poor volunteer doesn't have to sort through them wondering if they were washed

Our Council will take them with the recycling if they are put out separately with the glass and plastic recycling. I save a Primark bag and put rags in and put out clearly marked as "material - recycling"

There's probably a textiles recycling bin at your local tip - you can usually put pretty much any textile items in there, not just clothes but also things like bedlinen and curtains. They can be recycled as rags.

ebay? I've seen some on there

Thanks all. Very helpful. Will mark as rags and take them to Oxfam.

Dusters out of the knickers and vests (if cotton) and tights to tie plants to stakes in the garden.

I know you're asking about adult undies, OP, but can I just add that schools are quite often grateful (mine is,anyway) for outgrown kids' pants which they can use for accidents.

@junglejane66

ebay? I've seen some on there

They need to be unwashed. 😉