Until recently, PCK containers for used clothing were a permanent element of the urban landscape. However, at the beginning of 2025, changes in regulations, logistics problems and ecological challenges led to the decision to liquidate containers.
Legal changes that entered into force on January 1, 2025, significantly influenced the manner of managing textiles in Poland. The regulations impose an obligation of a more restrictive selection of clothes, and textile waste has been formally recognized as a separate category in the garbage segregation system. As a result, residents were obliged to donate textiles to selective municipal waste collection points (PSZOK).
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However, that’s not all. Though It is currently possible to throw damaged clothes into black containers for mixed wastemany people are not aware of this. Part of society still treats the Polish Red Cross containers as a place for everything, including useless, destroyed and dirty things. This, in turn, makes the collection less and less profitable, and logistics more complicated and expensive.
The decisive blow turned out to be Completion of the PCK cooperation with Wtórpoli.e. a key logistics and commercial partner in the field of processing and sales of used clothing. It was thanks to this cooperation that it was possible to finance local social activities conducted by the Polish Red Cross. Tilópol explained his decision with the growing costs of utilization and the decreasing value of the donated textiles. Too many things that did not use reuse meant that continuing collections in the current form ceased to be economically justified.
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