- From January 2025, textiles became a separate waste fraction, which means new segregation rules.
- Most clothes and textiles should be handed over to PSZOKs, but some municipalities make it easier.
- Check how Słupsk and Gliwice are changing the rules for collecting textiles by introducing special containers and bags!
Changes in waste segregation in Poland. No more giving old clothes to PSZOK?
In January 2025, a huge change regarding waste segregation came into force. Clothes and other textile materials are treated as a separate waste fraction and therefore must be treated. Most textiles should be returned to dedicated PSZOK points. You have to take old clothes, towels, bedding, as well as dishcloths and underwear there. The exception is very dirty and greasy materials. Cloths soiled with paints and greasy grease can be thrown into the mixed waste container.
Returning used textiles is cumbersome. In some communes there are too few points. As a result, Poles began to throw away old clothes into Red Cross containers. Therefore, many municipalities decide to introduce facilities for their residents.
From January 1, 2026, things will change in Słupsk. New containers appear next to garbage bins, which will be prepared for used clothes and other textiles. This is to make segregation easier for residents and reduce illegal landfills. – It will be easier for residents – from January 2026, residents of multi-family buildings will be able to return textiles once a month, while in single-family buildings collection will take place once a quarter. Clothing and textiles will be collected in specially marked, separate containers that will be delivered to residents – wrote Adam Sędziński, Councilor of the City Council in Słupsk, on Facebook.
Changes regarding material segregation are introduced not only by Słupsk. Also from January 2026, residents of single-family houses in Gliwice will receive special purple bags, which will be collected once a month. In turn, residents of multi-family buildings will receive special containers.
