HELPSY - Textile Recycling

Clothes aren't trash! The Town has partnered with Helpsy to offer residents a sustainable method of recycling clothing and textiles, helping residents reduce their solid waste. Residents can schedule FREE curbside pick-ups of clothing and textiles in advance at www.helpsy.co/exeternh. After filling out a request form online, a driver will be scheduled to pick up on the selected date. Clothing should be clean, dry, odorless, bagged and left at the curb prior to 7 am the morning of pickup. There is a 3-bag minimum per pick-up.

3 Drop-off locations:

1. 32 Court St Park
2. 4 Hampton Rd Recreation
3. 9 Cross Rd at the Transfer Station

Items acceptable for collection:

Anything you wear, sleep in, or dry yourself off with! This includes any type of material composed of natural or synthetic fibers such as products made from wool, silk, linen, cotton, polyester, leather, vinyl, hemp, and rayon. The following items can be donated in any condition (torn, worn, stained, missing buttons, broken zippers, etc.) as long as they are clean, dry, and odorless.

• Clothing & Fashion Accessories
• Men, Women, Children sizes
• Dresses, shirts, pants, suits, socks, pajamas, slips, bras, underwear
• Coats, gloves, hats
• Belts, ties, scarves, bathrobes
• Wallets, purses, backpacks, totes
• Shoes / sandals/ flip flops/ boots/ sneakers/ cleats/ slippers
• Towels / sheets/ blankets / comforters
• Halloween costumes
• Curtains / drapes
• Placemats / tablecloths and linen
• Throw rugs
• Stuffed animals

NOT accepted:
X Breakable housewares or glass
X Electronics: TVs, computers, monitors
X Furniture
X Building materials
X Scrap Metal: bed frames, curtain rods
X Large appliances
X Mattresses
X Pillows
X Encyclopedia sets, Phone Books, Magazines

Exeter has made an impact!

HELPSY's site:

HI, WE'RE HELPSY.

We're the largest textile collection company in the Northeast US. Unlike most used clothing businesses we have an environmental mission: to keep clothes out of the trash. In just the last year we collected 25 million pounds of clothes. The impact of the clothes we collected is the following:

·       320 million pounds of CO₂ emissions
·       20 billion gallons of water
·       The electricity usage of 10,000 American homes

We are proud to be a Public Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corp with an environmental mission. We believe that the tragedy of clothing filling our landfills and incinerators needs to stop.

To fight this battle, we work with partners large and small to place clothing collection containers, schedule collection drives, engage with cities and towns, manage unwanted inventories, and spread the word that CLOTHES AREN’T TRASH.