Enhancing Environmental and Social Impact Through Reuse and Recycling.
Helping retailers responsibly manage bras, underwear, returns, overstock, and samples while creating measurable impact.
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Since 2008, we’ve been part of Arizona’s shift toward circular fashion, helping retailers manage overstock, samples, and returns in ways that reduce waste and keep valuable materials in circulation.
That work is supported by community partners like EPI-HAB, who employ adults with disabilities to help sort and prepare bras for repurposing and new underwear for distribution. Their role ensures our process is ethical, inclusive, and aligned with our commitment to reducing inequalities.
The Bra Recyclers is a social enterprise dedicated to responsible textile reuse. We help extend the life of bras and underwear and make sure essential items reach families and nonprofits across the state.
We also give individuals a simple way to recycle bras they no longer need, creating environmental benefit and meaningful community impact.
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
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Retailers
Discover how partnering with The Bra Recyclers helps retailers align with ESG and CSR guidelines.
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Textile Recyclers
Help your community recycle more by adding bras and undergarments to your services offering.
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Nonprofits
Address the overlooked resource of underwear in your community through a purposeful partnership.
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Individual Recyclers
Earn recycling rewards, reduce your carbon footprint, and contribute to the circular economy.
Why Recycle?
Reduce waste and support small businesses.
Get rewarded with discounts from our Ambassadors when you recycle.
Support families in need and our environment.
Partner Benefits
Reduce your environmental impact and increase your social responsibility.
Measure your carbon emissions and make a positive impact.
Show your commitment to giving back while creating a sustainable future for future generations.
Recycle in Three Steps
1. Wash It
2. Submit Online Form
3. Send It
We Align with Five of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Extending Our Outreach to Families and Students
Through Our Nonprofit, The Undie Chest
The Undie Chest was established to address an often neglected issue within our community. The Bra Recyclers received numerous reports from teachers about students being bullied due to their insufficient undergarments, which highlighted the need to offer assistance to Title 1 school students who are below the poverty threshold.
Our partnership with school nurses and administrators through the Everyone Deserves Underwear (E.D.U) Program provides this essential resource for students' confidence, self-esteem, and dignity.
Additionally, through the Undie Power Program, we aim to extend our support to over 140 shelters and transitional programs to continue supporting homeless individuals and survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.
Dignity starts with feeling good undie-neath!
Environmental Impact Of Your Recycled Bras and Undies
Thanks to the strength of our community, we donated 6,295 pounds to other nonprofits in the first quarter of 2026. With a year-end goal of 8,000 pounds, this is an exciting and meaningful start. Your support is helping extend the life of usable textiles, care for people in need, and create impact that reaches far beyond what any one of us could do alone.
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176,403 miles driven by an average passenger vehicle
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5,600,347 smartphones charged
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7,795 gallons of gasoline consumed
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5,888 trash bags of waste recycled instead of landfilled
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24.5 tons of waste recycled instead of landfilled
Bra-Vo Moments
Our blog is dedicated to sharing inspiring stories, sustainability tips,
and recycling success stories.
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