SUAY IT FORWARD is a fully circular, 100% landfill diversion, textile recycling program that receives textile waste from the community, brands, and organizations, repurposing it into remade apparel and home goods by SUAY. Since its inception in 2017, SUAY has diverted over 4 million pounds of textiles from landfills through this manually powered recycling program. 

In the wake of the recent LA wildfires in January 2025, SUAY responded to an unprecedented demand for donation center overflow recycling. Within just a few short weeks, SUAY collected over 100,000 pounds of textiles from dozens of local LA organizations to keep the excessive amount of donated textiles out of landfill, and properly recycled. 

In response to this surge of textiles, our efforts are currently focused on supporting the local community here in LA and we are temporarily pausing our mail-in program for SUAY IT FORWARD to allow us to properly address the work right here in our community. If you live here in LA and want to drop off your textiles for recycling, we welcome you to come by SUAY seven days a week at 905 Mateo St. in DTLA to purchase a SUAY IT FORWARD bag for $20 to recycle your textiles. Each bag holds up to 20lbs of textiles and provides you with a $20 store credit to be used on any of our remade apparel, home goods, or Community Dye Bath™.

We thank you for your understanding and we still need your support! Please consider sponsoring a bag to allow us to continue to receive the textile donation overflow from our local LA neighbors. For your $20 contribution, we can keep 20lbs. of textiles out of landfill, continue to innovate circular programs, and create systems to better mitigate and respond to climate crises. Please look forward to our mail-in program returning to your state asap. Thank you.