Americans' obsession with fast fashion leaves in curbside waste bins - between 70 and 81 pounds per citizen annually, according to the Council for Textile Recycling.
Collection and transfer services vastly differ between states and municipalities, with some providing better access to textile recycling. Eco-driven promotional product producer PromoLeaf recently released analysis regarding the state of clothing and textile recycling in the United States.
The company ranked the top ten cities in the country for accessibility to textile recycling services.
"One factor that propelled these cities to the top of our ranking is the possibility to recycle clothes and apparel as part of a regular curbside waste and recycling collection," PromoLeaf stated. "Many cities in our study have various initiatives and programs aimed at diverting clothing waste from landfills, but only 8 out of 151 cities we profiled offer textile recycling as part of a regular curbside waste collection."
The methodology behind the rankings considered recycling centers accepting textiles; clothes donation sites available; textile recycling companies; curbside collection; city- and state-level programs and "Textile Recycling Intent," which considered localized Google search data.
View the slideshow to see which cities ranked highest.