Recycling That Creates Environmental and Social Impact

Helping retailers responsibly manage bras, underwear, returns, overstock, and samples through practical reuse and recycling pathways.

More Than Recycling: People, Purpose, and Partnership

Since 2008, The Bra Recyclers has helped retailers, brands, reverse logistics partners, textile recyclers, 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.

Give Returns, Overstock & Take-Back Products a Better Next Step

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 support reverse logistics, product stewardship, customer take-back programs, reuse, recycling, and measurable environmental and social impact.

Whether you are managing returns, excess inventory, samples, or a customer recycling initiative, we help you identify the right next step.

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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, building a customer take-back program, sourcing specialized apparel for resale, expanding textile recovery efforts, or recycling bras at home, there is a path for you.

Retailers, Brands & Ambassadors

Responsible solutions for returns, overstock, samples, and customer take-back programs.

Retailer Solutions
Textile Recycling Partners

Explore wholesale partnerships for quality bras, new underwear, and selected clothing available by weight, gaylord, or pallet.

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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.

Recycle Your Bras
Reverse Logistics Partners

Specialized pathways for companies managing apparel returns, overstock, samples, resale, reuse, and textile recovery.

Explore Circular Textile Partnerships

Ready to recycle your bras?

Every bra given a responsible next chapter helps keep valuable textiles in circulation while supporting environmental and community impact.

Prepare Your Items

Gather clean, gently used bras and new underwear. Please do not send used underwear.
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.
Drop off or ship

Take your items to a local Ambassador drop-off location or package and ship them directly to The Bra Recyclers.

Start Recycling

Global Goals. Practical Action.

The Sustainable Development Goals help connect local action to a larger vision for a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Through reuse and recycling, community partnerships, workforce inclusion, and expanded access to essential undergarments, The Bra Recyclers helps turn those goals into measurable action.

SDG 1: No Poverty

Through responsible reuse pathways and community partnerships, reusable bras can help support individuals and families facing economic hardship.
SDG 4: Quality Education

Through school and community partnerships, access to essential undergarments can help students feel more comfortable, confident, and ready to learn.
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

We work with nonprofit, school, and community partners serving people who face barriers to essential resources.
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption

We help individuals, businesses, and retailers make more responsible decisions about bras and underwear through reuse, recycling, and product stewardship.
SDG 17: Partnerships

We bring individuals, Ambassadors, businesses, retailers, nonprofits, schools, and community partners together to create responsible recycling pathways and expand collective impact.

Explore Our Sustainability Commitment

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.

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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 through nonprofit and community partners, along with materials moved through confirmed recycling pathways during the reporting period.

Together, these efforts support people, extend the useful life of valuable textiles, and reduce the amount of product sent to landfills.