Bra recycling

When you make a deposit at a Bra Bank, your illfitting or unwanted underwear will be whisked away to start a new life on the other side of the world, where traders support their families selling textiles locally. Successful ventures like this keep many families in developing countries out of poverty whilst providing employment for people at home in the UK. Any bras that are genuinely beyond redemption are dismantled and disposed of properly.

Is there a bra bank in near you?

You can download a list of participating stores at the foot of this page, if we don't yet have one in your area, but you would still like to donate them in support of our research, please place your old bras in a bag or envelope and post them to our bra bank here at: Against Breast Cancer, Leathem House, 13 Napier Court, Barton Lane, Abingdon, OX14 3YT. Please mark your package 'Recycling Scheme'.

How to order your own bra bank:

Our bright pink collection box acts as a focus for recycling and at only 60cm tall and 35cm wide has a very small footprint.

To request a bra bank for your business, school, shop, gym etc. please contact us, by telephone on 01235 534211 or email us to order your BRA BANK and we'll arrange to send one to you.

How to contact us when the bra bank is full:

The bra bank is sent with 3 liners, each liner holding around 7kg of bras. In consideration of the environment and to minimise transport costs we ask that you fill a minimum of 2 liners, before requesting a collection.

The bank will be collected at your convenience when it is full and needs collecting or replacing. Just simply call the telephone number on the side of the bank.

Other ways to recycle for research

We all care for our environment and it needn't be exclusive, within this section of our site you can find out how recycling your old mobile phone, printer cartridges, clothes and even by planting trees you can raise the vital funds needed to support our dedicated research to improve detection and survival. For more information on recycling visit Wasteconnect the UK's recycling database.