Textile Recycling Program
Donate Your Old Samples or Excess Inventory Now
S&S Activewear has partnered with Give Back Box to enable a recycling program tasked with reducing textile waste and supporting charities that focus on domestic violence, mental health, and economic growth.
Starting from The Inside
Corporate Culture
Professional Development
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Corporate Philanthropy
Occupational Health & Safety
S&S Activewear’s goal is not only to minimize operational accidents, but to have zero incidents year-round. To reach this goal, we will continue to pursue Health and Safety improvements through various initiatives.
What You Need to Know
What Is Give Back Box?
Give Back Box operates as the logistical muscle behind many large retailer donation programs by connecting businesses with charities across the US and abroad. They provide consumers with an easy way to donate old clothing and household items (or in our case extra samples or damaged inventory), therefore extending the life of donations and alleviating landfill overflow.
Give Back Box works with charities that support causes like domestic violence, mental health, and economic growth.
What Can I Donate?
This program is designed to provide a solution for textile waste in our industry. Therefore, you can donate things like sample overflow, old or damaged inventory, displays, and everything inbetween. In addition, if you have old clothes to get rid of at home those donations are always welcome.
When Can I Donate?
This program will live as a year-round effort under the Make an Imprint umbrella. There is no limit to how many labels you can download. This means you can continuously send in as many boxes as you need to, as often as you need.
How Do I Send My Donation?
For US based donators, please visit this site to download your pre-paid shipping label.
Once you’ve packed your recycled box to the brim, attach your label and drop off your box at a UPS location.
How to Qualify
Other Questions You Might Ask?
Where is my donation going and what happens to it?
The boxes are routed directly to the nearest participating local charity organization. Donated items are sorted and sold by the participating charity, and revenues are used to help fund community-based programs, including job training, employment placement services and support services.
What is the weight limit and box size requirement for my donation?
The maximum weight is 70 pounds. The combined length and girth of a piece (the length of its longest side plus the distance around its thickest part) may not exceed 108 inches. Please do not send large electronics, any liquids, fragile, hazardous, or volatile items, or ammunition in boxes.
Can I choose the charity that gets my donation?
Yes! If you choose to select which charity receives your donation, you will be asked to cover the $15 shipping cost. You can select a charity by visiting this site.
Is there a fee for donating?
There is no cost to participate, however if you select one of Give Back Box’s partner charities to receive your donation rather than sending it straight to Give Back Box, there is a $15 shipping fee.
But what about carbon emissions?
Give Back Box operates using reverse logistic solutions, meaning your donation will only get to the charity if there is already a truck going that way. This prevents extra driving, which means less carbon emissions, and promotes cleanerair.
Energy Management
Solar Panels
It is estimated that by 2050, solar will account for 20% of the nation’s energy needs.
High-Efficiency Lighting
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Freight Optimizer
Zone Skipping
This means our shipment freights are presorted at the point of origin based on its final destination before the carrier takes possession.
Waste & Water Management
Recycling
Paper Recycling Baskets: Each ton (2,000 pounds) of recycled paper can save an impressive 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water. We’ve also chosen to place paper-recycling bins throughout our offices, so it's a cinch for employees to recycle their paper waste.
Recycling Stations: Our office lunchrooms include individual receptacles, so our employees and guests proactively recycle their paper, aluminum, and plastic.
Textiles: We want to provide a more sustainable solution to landfills, so we partnered with Give Back Box to launch a donation program.
Reduction of Single Use Plastics
That's why we decided to install water refilling stations at all our facilities and provided employees with reusable bottles.
We’re happy to say that we’ve greatly reduced our plastic bottle waste, plus our employees are happily hydrated.
What You Need to Know
What Is Give Back Box?
Give Back Box works with charities that support causes like domestic violence, mental health, and economic growth.
What Can I Donate?
When Can I Donate?
How Do I Send My Donation?
Pack It Up
Print Label
