Upparel

UPPAREL is Australia's leading textile recovery and recycling company, offering sustainable solutions for unwanted textiles. They provide collection services for both individuals and businesses, aiming to divert textiles from landfills through reuse, repurposing, and recycling. For items that are still fit for wear, we have an open-door policy for charities, social enterprises, and not-for-profits. They can come to our warehouse and collect as much clothing as they need, go out and make an impact with it, and return anything that is unused free-of-charge. Where items are not fit for wear, we break down the textiles into a variety of categories depending on their material and decommissioning required. From there, we begin the recycling process. Mainly, this means taking these textiles and tearing them into a super fine fluffy fibre. This material we call FillUP can be utilised as is to replace virgin polyester fill for cushions and stuffed toys. To take it one step further, we’re able to compress this fibre to create our revolutionary circular product, UPtex. This completely recycled and recyclable material can be used for packaging, signage, homewares, and more! UPPAREL emphasises transparency and rewards customers for participating in their recycling programs.