Recycling old clothes isn’t always straightforward, but there are programs that are making it so much easier to keep apparel, shoes and accessories from ending up in landfills. Ahead, I delve into the ...

If I were to go through my closet and discard what I rarely wear—and frankly, it’s about half of it—I would have a considerable amount of clothing to get rid of. But the prospect of what to do with it ...

I started by grouping clothes into categories: coats, sweaters, cardigans, long-sleeve shirts, etc. I picked a few items I knew I could part with and threw them into a bag to be donated to Savers.