Mango, the Spanish fast fashion retailer, has teamed up with circular services provider I:CO for the reuse and recycling of apparels, textiles and shoes.
The retailer, reportedly, signed an agreement with I:CO to manage box containers in stores so as to enable customers to donate old clothes.
The box containers, already present in all stores of Mango across 15 countries, will help collect apparels that can then be repurposed to give them a second life.
Customers can deposit textiles and shoes in containers in the stores of Andorra, Austria Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK – importantly these could be of any brand.
I:CO will collect the apparels deposited in Mango’s containers and sort them into three categories.
It will then re-utilise them (garments that can be worn are distributed in the second-hand channel), reuse them (if they cannot be re-utilised, they will be used for other types of activities) or recycle them (the garments can be transformed into textile fibres for industrial uses).
Notably, until now, the waste collected in Mango stores was handled from Spain only, where all the items collected were donated and processed at the Koopera recovery and recycling centre.
The fashion retailer is majorly known for its menswear, womenswear and kidswear and has over 16,000 stores across the globe.
