Enhancing Environmental and Social Impact Through Reuse and Recycling.
Helping retailers responsibly manage bras, underwear, returns, overstock, and samples while creating measurable impact.
Circular Fashion Powered by Partnership
Since 2008, The Bra Recyclers has helped retailers, brands, and individuals give bras and underwear a more responsible next chapter through reuse and recycling.
Our work is supported by EPI-HAB, an Arizona nonprofit that creates meaningful employment opportunities for adults with disabilities. Their team helps sort and prepare products for their appropriate next pathway, making inclusive employment an important part of the environmental and social impact we create together.
The Bra Recyclers is a social enterprise helping retailers, brands, and individuals extend the useful life of bras and underwear through responsible reuse and recycling.
By connecting environmental stewardship, inclusive employment, and community impact, we create practical pathways that help keep valuable textiles in circulation and out of landfills.
Looking for a responsible solution for returns, overstock, samples, and customer take-back programs?
The Bra Recyclers helps apparel brands and retailers create responsible next-life pathways for bras and underwear that cannot return to traditional resale channels.
Our services can support reverse logistics, product stewardship, customer take-back programs, reuse, recycling, and measurable environmental and social impact.
Whether you are managing returned products, excess inventory, samples, or a customer recycling initiative, we help you identify a practical path forward.
Product Stewardship and Reverse Logistics
Support for customer take-back and mail-back programs
Reuse and recycling pathways for returns, overstock, and samples
Product sorting and responsible disposition based on condition and intended next use
Customer participation and rewards reporting
Environmental and social impact reporting
Support for sustainability, circularity, and product stewardship goals
Community Impact
Connection to vetted nonprofit and community partners when products qualify for reuse
Social impact measurement through community feedback and reporting
Opportunities to support dignity, access, and community well-being through responsible product pathways
Who We Serve
Whether you are managing product returns, recycling bras at home, building a local collection program, or expanding textile recovery efforts, there is a path for you.
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Retailers, Brands & Ambassadors
Responsible solutions for returns, overstock, samples, and customer take-back programs.
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Textile Recycling Partners
Expand recovery options by including bras and underwear in your textile recycling services.
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Nonprofit & Community Impact
Learn how qualified products and partnerships help create meaningful community impact.
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Individual Recyclers
Recycle bras and new underwear you no longer wear at a local drop-off location or via a mail-in option.
Ready to recycle your bras?
Every bra given a responsible next chapter helps keep valuable textiles in circulation while supporting environmental and community impact.
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Prepare Your Items
Gather clean, gently used bras and new underwear. Please do not send used underwear.
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Complete the online form
Tell us what you are sending and choose whether you will mail your items or take them to a participating drop-off location.
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Drop off or ship
Take your items to a local Ambassador drop-off location or package and ship them directly to The Bra Recyclers.
Our Work Supports Five
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Our reuse, recycling, inclusive employment, and community impact work supports five United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Extending Community Impact Through The Undie Chest
Our nonprofit partner helps turn responsible product stewardship into meaningful support for students, families, and individuals facing hardship.
The Undie Chest provides new, clean underwear to people experiencing poverty, homelessness, crisis, or economic hardship. Through partnerships with schools, shelters, and community organizations, essential items reach people who often have few other places to turn.
The Everyone Deserves Underwear (EDU) program supports students and families through school nurses, Title I schools, and family resource partners. Undie Power extends that support to adults through shelters, transitional programs, and other community organizations.
Together, The Bra Recyclers and The Undie Chest connect environmental responsibility with dignity and community impact.
Dignity starts with feeling good undie-neath.
Social and Environmental Impact of Reuse and Recycling
Year to date in 2026, our community has helped move 6,295 pounds of bras and underwear into responsible next-life pathways. This includes products reused by nonprofit and community partners, as well as materials kept in circulation through recycling.
Together, these efforts support people, extend the useful life of valuable textiles, and reduce the environmental burden of sending products to landfills.
The greenhouse gas emissions avoided are equivalent to:
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Driving an average passenger vehicle 176,403 miles
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Charging 5,600,347 smartphones
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Using 7,795 gallons of gasoline
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Recycling 5,888 bags of waste instead of landfilling them
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Recycling 24.5 tons of waste instead of landfilling it
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