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title: Recycle Your Underwear!
date: 2013-04-24T17:57:22Z
modified: 2013-04-24T17:57:22Z
permalink: "https://elizabethyarnell.com/recycle-your-underwear/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 3153
categories:
  - Living Naturally
  - Misc.
  - Recipes
tags:
  - compost
  - earth day
  - earth week
  - recycle
  - Rodale
  - textile recycling
  - underwear
author: Elizabeth
---

We compost, recycle papers and plastics, and limit our water usage, but one way to help the earth that never occurred to me was to recycle old underwear.[![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BDUfbq4EL._SX342_.jpg "underwear")

](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUPW6LU/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=lizoneandmore-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B00BUPW6LU&adid=0RJSAZQ6AT5MQ85YV7ZX)

Rodale.com offers [five surprising ways to recycle underwear](http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/how-recycle-your-underwear?cm_mmc=TheDailyFixNL-_-1268014-_-04182013-_-5_Surprising_Ways_to_Recycle_Your_Underwear "recycle underwear"), including cutting it up and adding it to your compost bin (only if the underwear is 100% cotton, of course!).

These tips come at a good time in our house as I just noticed a few pairs of my husband’s underwear that should be retired from active duty. Have you noticed that men will wear underwear until it literally falls to pieces?!