Humana Fundación Pueblo para Pueblo is a foundation that has been involved
in textile waste management for 36 years.
Basically, we take used clothes
and textile waste that we collect with recycling containers
located on public streets and we transfer them to this facility
so they can be sorted and reused.
In Catalonia we are able to recover more than 4000 tonnes of clothes a year
and give a second life to more than 90% of the clothes
that we sort in this facility.
The location is very important for us logistics-wise because we are
very close to Barcelona, where our shops are located,
which is the final destination of the used clothes that we sort here.
It's also very close to the port of Barcelona,
from where some of the clothes are sent to different countries,
mainly in Africa, where people receive these clothes
to sell them there.
So the location of the facility is fundamental.
And it was really important that it
should be near Barcelona.
Secondly,
it had to be a sufficiently large and flexible space,
especially in terms of storage height,
for storing the clothes, and above all, a space that guaranteed
a good working environment, both for
logistics and storage tasks and also for offices.