73% of clothing ends up in landfill or incinerated. To get that to zero we need to make it easy not just to recycle but to recycle in a meaningful way.

Recycle Your BAM Clothing

Refreshing your wardrobe shouldn’t mean your old favourites go to waste. That’s why we’ve teamed up with The Salvation Army to give our UK community a simple, sustainable way to recycle or reuse, pre-loved clothing avoiding landfill

This partnership helps us look after what happens next. By working with The Salvation Army, we’re making it easier for clothing to stay useful for longer – and helping keep good pieces out of landfill.

It’s donating made easy. Just generate a free returns label, drop your parcel at your local collection point, and your clothes go straight to The Salvation Army. Fuss-free, planet-kind, and a lovely way to clear space while doing good.

Once received, your BAM pieces are carefully assessed. Depending on their condition, they’ll be resold, recycled, or remanufactured – ensuring nothing is wasted and every item supports a more circular future.

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Only 1.4%* of carbon emissions from producing our clothes is generated by transport from China. It’s surprisingly small.  

To put that in context, washing our clothes contributes 14.8%* of the carbon emissions of clothing throughout its life cycle.

We’ve looked at all the emissions generated throughout our product life cycle from the moment the bamboo leaves the soil right through to laundry and recycling. This means we can plan how we reduce those emissions. 

What this has clearly highlighted is that using a sustainable crop like bamboo far outweighs the impact of importing it.

*Based on BAM’s measurement of our total footprint in 2019

You’ll notice that whenever we describe the fabric our clothes are made of, we call it bamboo viscose. The viscose process is the way the bamboo pulp is turned into a fabric and this uses chemicals.

Bamboo is one of the most sustainable crops on the planet but one of the criticisms of bamboo viscose is that it’s not as eco-friendly as it might first appear because of this chemical process.  

Every clothing business has a chemical footprint but we believe all clothing manufacturers should ensure safe chemistry and zero water pollution to protect the local population as well as wildlife and its habitat.

As part of our goal to be impact positive, we are reducing any remaining pollution from our textile processing to zero. To do that we’ve traced back through our entire supply chain to ensure we know exactly who is making our fibre and dyeing and finishing our fabrics. When it comes to the viscose process, we have visited both of the viscose producers used by our suppliers. We know for ourselves exactly how our bamboo viscose is made and we have made a commitment to  only work with textile manufacturers who have responsible chemical management systems and waste treatment practices and who invest in the technology needed to make things better.

We don’t shy away from the realities of bamboo viscose because – despite these chemicals – it is still one of the most sustainable fibres available and it’s a planet-friendly alternative to conventional viscose, cotton & polyester.