Textile Rescue

03/03/2026

At Te Whare Koha with the Tuesday recycling club 🥰

Love hanging out here with everyone and getting the unusable clothing sent to a second life rather than to landfill.

A huge Thank You to Leana and Jase for all the support for our budding charity. 💚♻️

Today we are blessed to have Sonia and her team of textile recyclers working out of Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust

From left- Donna, Lori, Sonia and Lee

These ladies are amazing with all the mahi they do to help our environment by reducing our textile wastage...

Kaitiaki for our whenua, Nga Mihi for all you do ladies, always a pleasure having you in and around Te Whare Koha 👏🌱

20/02/2026

Our first Clothes Swap event is on today at the Aokautere School Hall.

23/11/2025

Pssst... Pass it on...

Black Friday drives a sharp rise in impulse buying, production, and waste. The environmental impact outlasts the sale.

Buy what you need. Leave what you don’t.

Your wallet (and the planet) will thank you tomorrow. 🖤

02/11/2025

28/10/2025

After so much beautiful support from ENM, Textile Rescue Manawatu is now officially a member group!

05/10/2025

Join fellow enthusiasts passionate about fabric and material reuse, upcycling, recycling, and extending the lifecycle of textiles—while exploring creative alternatives to landfill.



📅 Wednesday 22 October
🕠 5:30pm – 7:00pm
📍 Palmy CBD or via Zoom

Come along to connect, share ideas, and discover what local volunteers and organisations are working on in this space.

RSVP Here
https://track.infoodle.com/f/a/woaA0JjHRJnmDmi__b9yUw~~/AABEchA~/fJCs4agSRMMTdH_5q7AQnhxb7zQrNhoAmiAfcePaB3Y94o8lsXurTNXLBcr6u9eJt5N-mvDZAICnWL9Ys3NnLAKfe9vg52xOK1EAfkVHMhqYN5xQHnoYkOocDotveiIusKc5WnauyQD_RicxE1oNhOozY8p0ZK9gk2kT9A9OUH4Q4BkCiNsTh9eA4g6HU6qS
For any queries, contact Di [email protected].

22/09/2025

Bale #2...

06/09/2025

This week I had the amazing privilege of attending both days of the NZ SDG Summit 2025 held at Massey University with sponsorship from Environment Network Manawatu and Palmerston North City Council. Thank you so much to Di Koch and Amy Viles for your awhi me o tautoko.

So many amazing speakers, ideas and information! My mind has been blown. Most relevant to me was the talk by Trisia Farrelly ONZM, who among many marvelous things is a co-founder of the Plastics Pollution Alliance (NZ) and representative from Aotearoa New Zealand in formulating the Global Plastics Treaty. I hope that one day we can prevent plastic clothing from entering NZ at all 💚

If you haven't heard of SDGs, they stand for Sustainable Development Goals. They are 17 goals developed by the United Nations for countries to work on to improve the health and wellbeing of humans and the planet.

04/09/2025

This is our first product (literally the very first one). Coloured cotton-rich t-shirt rags, packaged in a coloured cotton tshirt.

These rags consist of freshly laundered charity waste tshirts, cut into convenient sizes, and made from at least 95% cotton.

We can also make rags to your requirements (some lead time involved currently); white 100% cotton, cotton rich, cotton sheeting, cotton toweling, cotton flannel, sized to suit your needs. Please email or message us to enquire.

All proceeds from rag sales will go back into textile rescue efforts. We are 100% in support of charities.

03/09/2025

The first wool fadge containing 98kg of polycotton, polyester and other synthetic clothing is on its way to Textile Products in Auckland on a Mainfreight truck. I am beyond stoked to have these two companies step up and offer to be partners in this budding sustainability initiative. 💚