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Partner > Basisgruppen > Warum mit TEXAID sammeln?
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TEXAID is the only collection company that sorts well over 65 % of the collected clothes and shoes in Switzerland. With the sorting TEXAID – in contrast to the competition exporting directly – ensures a more ecological and need-based recycling of the old clothes.
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With the own sorting plants TEXAID creates new jobs and, through the sorting, prevents the export of waste and unusable textiles. TEXAID permanently employs about 200 people, half of them in Switzerland, the other half in the two subsidiaries in Bulgaria and Hungary.
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Our aid organisation are main shareholders of TEXAID and not only give their names but are also involved in the operating business through their grassroots groups. What TEXAID earns goes to the cash boxes of the aid organisations, which are in turn shareholders of TEXAID Textilverwertungs-AG and therefore take parts of the entrepreneurial risk. So, in contrast to the competition, a donation of clothes to TEXAID has a fourfold effect: it offers clothes for small budgets, takes pressure off the environment, creates jobs and directly supports six Swiss aid organisations and their grassroots groups.
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90 percent of the net profit (after deduction of all overheads) goes to the affiliated aid organisations and their grassroots groups. Since TEXAID was launched by the aid organisations in 1978, a total of roughly 150 million francs could be paid out this way; about 3/5 were given to the grassroots groups, 2/5 went to the aid organizations.
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TEXAID is the only company in this industry publishing annual results and it is controlled by an independent trust company (Visura).
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TEXAID contributes to the calming of the collection system in Switzerland: the «Coordination Centre for Street Clothing Collections in Switzerland», which all four big clothing collection organisations belong to, was initiated and is operated by TEXAID. The centre coordinates the street collections and simplifies approval procedures for local communities by requiring only a common request for approval.
- Amongst others TEXAID is a member of the Swiss Recycling society, which provides educational work in schools and informs the public about the separate and correct collection and recycling of recyclable materials.
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