About Helpsy

Helpsy is the ONLY vertically integrated, B Corp certified collections company working around the clock to change the way we think about, dispose of, recycle and buy secondhand clothing for the benefit of our planet. Learn more about the multitude of ways Helpsy positively impacts our planet:

Collect

Our fully dedicated, user-friendly business is focused on collecting clothes. We work with partners large and small, public and private, to manage clothing collection containers, excess retail inventories, home pickups, textile drives, and more.

Helpsy Collect

Shop

We launched helpsy.com to radically change the way we buy clothes in an effort to save our planet. Our site is designed to break down the barriers to buying secondhand clothing and build your trust, change your mindset and make it easy to buy high-quality, amazing pre-loved clothing.

Helpsy Shop

Source

Helpsy Source (formerly kōsei threads) offers wholesale inventory and brand sourcing services to large and small resellers, making it easy for small business owners to sell secondhand clothing and build a sustainable business model.

Helpsy Source

Did you know?

The average person discards over 100 pounds of clothing per year, with 85 percent of that clothing ending up in the trash.

Our Impact

environmental impact — **Environmental**
In 2021, Helpsy collected 100 items of clothing every minute! Together, our efforts kept 29 million pounds of clothes, shoes, and other textiles from the waste stream. What does that mean? That’s 560 million pounds of CO2 removed from our atmosphere and 14 billion gallons of water saved. Let’s keep it up together!

community impact — **Community**
Helpsy is the only certified B Corp in clothing collection. We’ve paid over $400,00 to local charities and municipalities in 2021 alone. We are the only group that rolls our sleeves up and partners with your local towns to recycle and upcycle clothes.

economic impact — **Economic**
Helpsy has over 250 full time employees, all of whom earn an honorable, living wage. In fact, we pride ourselves in paying the best wages in the industry. 50% of our leadership team is female and 50% of our team is either an immigrant or from a minority group. Our business of protecting the planet is doing double duty supporting our local economies. In 2021, we saved local townships over $1.2 million in waste disposal fees.

Not So Fun Fact

A single cotton t-shirt requires over 700 gallons of water, which is enough to supply an individual with drinking water for more than two years. The truth is that our current fashion system endangers both our planet and our people. A simple switch to buying secondhand will help to mitigate the impact of fashion.

A word from our founder

While there is still a lot of work to be done, there has been a shift in the perception of used clothing. In 2020 we saw a 27% increase in the sale of used clothing, coupled with a decrease in fast fashion manufacturing. Americans are trending toward more sustainable clothing and the planet will be grateful.

Alex Husted, Co-Founder of Helpsy

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