United Cerebral Palsy and US Again are going head-to-head in Northfield with competing collection bins for clothes and shoes. These bins are in the recycling area of the Northfield Econofoods parking lot. There are at least 7 other US Again bins in the area.
I don’t understand why they don’t put some of the bins downtown with the newspaper vending racks.
It is worth noting that USAgain is a for-profit, though it also sounds like they’re better about using all donated items than many of the charities. When possible, they resell usable garments — but everything else can be shredded and used for other purposes by textile recyclers. Presumably this is still profitable for them. That makes USAgain a good choice for recyclable textiles you wouldn’t give charity or they wouldn’t accept: cotton underwear, old towels, very worn jeans, etc.
(Theoretically Rice County also accepts cotton for recycling, but you must drop it off in person. I doubt this is very popular.)