Reconomy Connect partners with Reskinned to help retailers keep unwanted clothes in circulation
Reconomy Connect, a brand by Reconomy, the leading international circular economy specialist, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Reskinned, a circular fashion platform, to make it easier for its retail customers to keep unwanted clothes in use for longer.
Reconomy Connect’s partnership with Reskinned will help bring the platform’s solution to its leading retail customers, supporting them to rise up the waste hierarchy by focusing on reuse. It aims to make circular fashion scalable, credible and low-effort by creating more options to rehome unwanted clothes and extend product lifecycles. It also aims to open up new commercial opportunities for retailers.
Reskinned has over 20 years’ recycling experience and combines technology and textile expertise to recondition, resell, repair and recycle clothing at scale. It collects unwanted clothes and sorts them by hand before undergoing a thorough grading process to assess quality and condition. Quality items are sold back to the public on its resale platform for up to 60% off their original price, while others are repurposed or recycled ensuring nothing goes to landfill.
This partnership comes at a time of strong second-hand goods sales in the UK, with the Centre for Economics and Business Research forecasting sales of £4.8bn this year, up from £4.3bn in 2024. Two-thirds of Britons bought second-hand goods online last year, keeping 199 million products in circulation and preventing them from ending up in landfill1. This is important progress given textile waste contributes to significant levels of pollution with discarded items taking decades to decompose.
Hear from Reconomy and Reskinned leaders:
“We are excited to partner with Reskinned to provide brands with easy-to-implement, EPR-compliant takeback solutions that not only help remediate faulty customer returns, but also get more products back into circulation; turning challenges into opportunities for both profit and sustainability. Through this partnership, brands will also gain access to innovative recycling solutions and be able to join Reskinned’s fibre-to-fibre programmes, closing the loop on textile waste.”
David Seal-Yates, Head of Circular Solutions
Reconomy
“We are pleased to be partnering with a best-in-class, technology-led international circularity business that works with some of the biggest brands in the world. By coming together, we can help more retailers rehome unwanted clothes and accelerate the shift towards a more sustainable fashion future.”