Our environmental impact
85% of unused textiles are dumped in U.S. landfills each year. Our mission is to divert as much as we can.
Sell with usOur approach to circularity
We put 82% of the items we receive back into American closets. For charitable organizations, the national average is just 20%. Source
51% listed on ThredUp
26% reused
We partner with Channel Control Merchants, a reverse logistics retailer that sells unsold inventory through their domestic network.
5% listed in a Rescue Box
We sell heavily discounted bundles of items that don’t qualify to be listed on our marketplace.
18% recycled
Our vetted partner Bank and Vogue operates a fiber-to-fiber recycling ecosystem.
Our impact assessments
We are committed to rigorously assessing the environmental benefits of choosing secondhand by partnering with Green Story Inc. to calculate our impact.
76 million
Total number of items we’ve given a second life
673 million
Pounds of CO2e avoided, which equals 34K trips around the world!
25%
Average carbon emissions reduction when clothes are put back into rotation
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