All prices are ex-works and shipped to the port of your choice. We load 20ft and 40ft containers (including high cube) by forklift, our experienced loaders fill all the containers to capacity. Trucks for Eastern Europe are hand loaded with each individual order, part-loads are available. We are able to organise all shipping, including paperwork (forwarding documentation to you by courier service)
It is perceived that the economics of textile reuse and recycling are deteriorating because of the rapidly declining price of new clothing entering the market, through imports from low labour cost countries in the Far East, is lowering the price being realised for the resale of wearable clothing in the UK and in export markets. The reuse proportion of textiles collected is declining because of the increased mix of low quality items.
A reduction in textile recycling will occur at a time when certain alternative technologies for biological municipal waste (BMW) treatment, such as autoclaving and anaerobic digestion, are under demonstration. These technologies will have little impact on textiles, which are retained in the process residues and adversely affect the economics of the technologies. Under current policy conditions, which are generally based on weights diverted from landfill.
Cotton may be a natural fibre, but conventional cotton farmers use about 1/3 lb of hazardous pesticides to grow the 1 lb of cotton needed for a t-shirt. Cotton processing is polluting and wasteful. Intensive conventional cotton farming around the world uses, amongst other chemical inputs, 25% of the world's total output of insecticides, many of these organophosphates - dangerous nerve poisons that damage eco systems, pollute water supplies and cause health problems for local communities.
Working closely with charities, door to door collections and local services, Parisma Export provides a speedy and regular clothing and rag collection service to international and pan European clients. We are able to:
Offer top rates for Charity Shop rags, commence collections at short notice, and collect as often as required. Guarantee reliability and regularity collect from Jersey, Channel Islands and also our warehouse in Italy.
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Used clothing and other textiles are discarded by the domestic consumer in one of six ways, depending on the level of local involvement by Local Authorities, charities and commercial operators. Some return is obtained for a small proportion through resale, but the overwhelming majority, in terms of tonnage, is donated free by the original owner or is disposed of to the waste stream.
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Textile items are sold through jumble sales or boot fairs. Also, some high value clothing is sold through commercial second hand clothes retailers with a proportion of the sales value of each item being returned to the original owner. Surplus, unsold material from these ventures will be sold to the merchants. A recent but increasing private sales route is through the internet using the online auction Website, eBay. Parisma Export utilises textile banks, Charity Shops, Door to door Collections and kerbside Recycle Schemes with local authorities to recycle house hold rummage, used clothing and used shoes.
