Exporter of Used Clothing & Other Articles Across the Globe

SKP TRADING is a Canadian company dedicated to textile recycling.

Our love for the environment and concern for the wasteful fashion industry started us on our circular journey.

Our systemic approach towards used clothing ensures gently used clothing finds a continued useful, extended life for users in markets around the globe or discarded clothing as post-consumer waste to be used in textile recycling and help brands make fashion sustainable at scale – thus strengthening the loop in the wasteful fashion industry.

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WHY SKP TRADING

Our Values

SKP Trading advances our clients’ expectations through integrity, quality, and accountability.

Our Vision

To deliver a higher standard of excellence in meeting our client’s goals and expectations.

Environmental Impacts of the Fashion Industry

Canadians purchase an average of 70 new articles of clothing per year – 85% of which ultimately enters the waste stream and our already strained urban landfills. When these items are donated, we reduce the amount of products going into landfills.

Textile Recycling Benefits Everyone

On a global scale, there are enormous gains from re-using still serviceable goods. Since clothing, even used clothing, still has value in the marketplace, it constitutes income to those who receive it. When we discard it, this results in a worldwide economic loss, but when we reuse it, we create a worldwide gain. This gain can be used to help those in need.

What Happens to Recycled Clothing?

48% of used textile products are reused as second-hand clothing and sold to developing nations.
6% is sold domestically.
20% is turned into rags and wiping cloths
26% is converted into fibres, and upcycled into materials such as carpet underlay and vehicle padding.
Wool items are consolidated in India, where the fibres are separated and then reused.

2015

Founded in Canada

99M+

Pounds Recycled

30M

in 2020

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