Fun tip from Ideal Bite:

Help reduce the nearly 9 million tons of clothing tossed into our landfills yearly. Each pound of clothing that you recycle spares 1.7 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere (since creating new materials uses more energy than recycling).

Wanna Try?

* Project Underwear - donate good-condition, clean (obvi) underwear through the mail to this Italian org, and it’ll find its way onto a lil’ butt in Ethiopia, India, or Romania.
* Patagonia Common Threads Garment Recycling - send in or drop off your worn-out thermal underwear (and other clothes), and Patagonia will turn them into new apparel.
* Goodwill and Salvation Army - many of their branches accept clean, gently used underwear (again, emphasis on clean).
* DIY Bite: Reuse old underwear as a rag (just remember to put it away next time you invite the boss over for dinner). If it’s cotton (and as long as you didn’t use the rag to wipe up toxic stuff like car oil), you can compost it when it’s no longer useful - just make sure to cut off and toss elastic bands if it has any.