We are often asked about our policy on charity recycling banks in our car parks. Here is a summary of our current approach.
Where allocated space permits, we will provide customers with facilities to recycle textiles – clothing, sheets and bedding (no pillows or quilts) & shoes. The value of the material will be donated to Asda’s charity partners. Asda’s current textile recycling operator partners are The Textile Recycling Association (TRA) and The Salvation Army.
In this way, we raised over £621,285.64 for Salvation Army in 2009. Our customers generated 2,644.6 tonnes of textiles, contributing 10% of the textile volume collected by the SA in 2009.
In Sept 2009 ASDA chose Children in Need as a textile recycling charity partner. The Children in Need logo’d banks collected by the Salvation Army raised £24,869.30, generated from customers disposing of 181.636 tonnes of textiles in the months of Sept through to end of Dec 09.
We aspire to raise over £200,000.00 for Children in Need this year through textile recycling alone.