Colorado's Recycling Goals

Northern Colorado Textile (NCT) Recycling is a family owned and operated company located in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Established to assist in promoting a positive environmental impact and enhance the communities we serve. Our main focus is recycling textiles which led to delightful partnerships with local charities, non-profits, municipalities, and small businesses to direct the donations of Coloradoans to where they are needed most. 

It is our first initiative to identify items that still hold value to local and national markets here in the US. Also, companies count on us to provide them with as much textile weight as possible to meet a demand overseas. Opportunities are present for rag mills and other processing businesses who have larger capacity than we do to break the materials down. We act as a middle man. Sorting, cataloguing and transferring the items to a proper place to give it as much extra life as possible to keep items out of the trash that do not belong there.  

We would love to invent a magic eraser wand that could poof waste off our glorious planet. The reality is that eventually there is a percentage of these items that will end up in a landfill at some point. What we are doing here is minimizing this as optimally as we can. In our busy months we are processing out 40,000 lbs per month. 100% of that weight would be in Colorado’s landfill unnecessarily. At the end of life for these items, a small percentage of them will eventually end up in a landfill overseas. 

Yes! With our payout program we pay by pound for unusable or excess donations. Check out our Partner’s Page for more information

Are you interested in getting involved? We are always happy to share “the load”. Share some details with us in the contact form and we will be in touch!

Yes! We have an exchange program for our partners. Some of our partners need more men’s jeans and others are looking for more baby clothes. We connect nonprofits to each other to get the specific needs met for the community you serve.