Remains

What Remains does

Remains LLC is a privately held textile recycling company founded in 1981 and headquartered at 3340 Morgan Ford Road in St. Louis, Missouri. The company collects, sorts, processes, and resells post-consumer and post-industrial textiles, with stated daily throughput of approximately 50,000 lbs of post-consumer clothing and linens, 8,000 lbs of miscellaneous items (shoes, purses, belts, toys, household goods), 3,000 lbs of post-industrial textiles, and 250 lbs of plastic, film, and metal, accumulating to more than 120 million pounds processed over its operating history. Remains reports a 90% reuse-or-recycle diversion rate across materials received and operates across five service lines: textile recycling, fundraising collection drives, secure product destruction, toll processing/baling, and textile brokering into global and local resale markets.

The company serves three primary customer segments: community organizations (schools, sports teams, non-profits) that run textile collection drives for fundraising; businesses and corporations needing secure destruction of branded materials or disposition of excess inventory; and industrial manufacturers generating post-industrial fabric waste. Inbound supply flows through a community-led model anchored by placed collection bins and partnership programs with local organizations, with direct outreach and contact-based quoting for B2B services such as product destruction and toll processing.

Revenue is generated through transaction-fee pricing across each service line, including processing fees for recycling, fees for secure destruction, baling/toll-processing fees, brokering commissions, and revenue share or fees tied to community fundraising programs. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is handled through direct contact. Remains operates a single processing facility in St. Louis, open Monday through Friday, and markets itself through its website blog, social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok), and SEO for textile-recycling and clothing-donation keywords. The company is structured as an LLC with no disclosed external investors, subsidiaries, parent company, or executive leadership team in the source material, consistent with a founder- or family-owned small business with 11–50 employees.

Name

Remains

Legal name

Remains LLC

Website

https://remainsinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Remains LLC, founded in 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a privately held textile recycling company that processes post-consumer and post-industrial clothing, linens, and ancillary materials for resale into global and local markets, serving community organizations, businesses, and industrial manufacturers across recycling, fundraising, product destruction, toll processing, and brokering service lines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Recycling Services

NAICS

Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Wholesale-Apparel, Piece Goods & Notions (5130)

akta.pro primary industry

Textile & Apparel Sorting/Recovery Facilities (EUAIADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Textile & Apparel Recycling and Sorting (Non-E-waste) (BPALADAL), Secondary Materials Brokerage & Trading (Recovered Commodities) (BPALADAJ), Post-Consumer Textile Collection & Sorting (Take-Back/Charity/Reverse Logistics) (IMAOAMAA)

Keywords

• Textile recycling services
• Used clothing processing
• Industrial waste baling
• Product destruction services
• Community fundraising programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint Louis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Textile Recycling Services: Processing fees for textile recycling services provided to businesses, organizations, and community partners. Revenue generated from bulk processing, baling services, and material sales to global and local markets.
2. Toll Processing and Brokering: Bulk processing and baling services for large quantities of textiles, converting waste into revenue opportunities through material sales.
3. Product Destruction Services: Secure destruction of branded and sensitive materials with fees for responsible disposal.
4. Fundraising Programs: Partnership programs helping local organizations raise funds through sustainable clothing and textile collection drives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Remains LLC collects, sorts, and processes post-consumer and post-industrial textiles at its St. Louis facility, baling materials for resale into global and local reuse and recycling markets while running secure product destruction, toll processing, brokering, and community fundraising collection programs. The company handles clothing, shoes, linens, industrial fabrics, and miscellaneous hardgoods, with a stated goal of keeping 90% of received materials out of landfills.

Product overview

Remains LLC is a textile recycling service company offering multiple interconnected service lines including Textile Recycling, Fundraising programs, Product Destruction, Toll Processing, and Brokering. The company processes thousands of pounds of clothing, shoes, and linens daily, sorting and repurposing these items for reuse in global and local markets. Their core business model involves collecting, sorting, and processing post-consumer and post-industrial textiles to minimize landfill waste while supporting sustainable solutions for businesses and communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Textile Recycling Sorting and processing of post-consumer clothing, shoes, and linens, and post-industrial textiles, into bales and materials for resale into global and local reuse and recycling markets, keeping approximately 90% of received textiles out of landfills.
• Fundraising Collection Programs Partnership program that helps schools, sports teams, and non-profit organizations raise funds by hosting textile and clothing collection drives supplied with Remains collection bins.
• Product Destruction (Mutilation & Destruction) Secure destruction of branded and sensitive materials to protect brands and ensure responsible disposal, targeting businesses with excess inventory, returns, or off-spec products.
• Toll Processing Bulk processing and baling of large quantities of customer-supplied textiles, converting textile waste into revenue opportunities through material sales to downstream markets.
• Brokering Brokerage of sorted and baled textile materials into global and local reuse and recycling markets, matching supply produced through Remains' processing operations with downstream buyers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% reuse/recycling rate for all textiles received
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Worn Again Technologies: Worn Again Technologies is developing chemical processes to recover polyester and cotton from used textiles into virgin-equivalent feedstock — an emerging fiber-to-fiber recycler competing for brand take-back programs that also feed traditional sorters like Remains.
• Circ: Circ is a technology-driven recycler separating cotton and polyester blends for fiber-to-fiber reuse — a forward-looking emerging player in textile recycling that competes for the same inbound feedstock as Remains but at a higher-value tier.

Direct peers

• Bank & Vogue Group: Bank & Vogue is a global trader and processor of used clothing and textiles, sourcing from charities and municipalities worldwide — directly comparable to Remains' brokering and resale into global secondary textile markets.
• Wearable Collections: Wearable Collections runs clothing and textile collection programs for municipalities, schools, and corporations in the U.S., sorting and routing material to reuse and recycling channels — directly comparable to Remains' community bin and fundraising operations.
• USAgain: USAgain operates a large network of clothing donation bins across the U.S. and processes used textiles for resale and recycling — a direct counterpart to Remains' post-consumer collection, sorting, and resale model.
• Trans-Americas Trading Company: Trans-Americas is a U.S.-based used clothing exporter and processor that grades and ships sorted post-consumer textiles globally — directly comparable to Remains' sorting, baling, and export brokering activities.
• I:CO (part of SOEX Group): I:CO is a global used-textile collector and sorter serving apparel brands and retailers with take-back programs, directly comparable to Remains' collection, grading, and downstream brokering of post-consumer textiles.

Broad incumbents

• Savers / Value Village: Savers is a for-profit thrift retailer that purchases donated textiles in bulk and routes unsold inventory into the secondary textile market — overlapping with Remains' downstream resale economics, but driven by retail rather than processing operations.
• Salvation Army: The Salvation Army operates one of the largest used clothing donation networks in the U.S. and sells or recycles unsold textiles into the secondary market — overlapping with Remains' donation-based collection stream as part of a broader social services portfolio.
• Goodwill Industries International: Goodwill collects donated clothing and textiles nationwide through its retail network and processes/sells unsold material into the secondary textile stream — overlapping with Remains' community donation intake and downstream resale, but as part of a much broader retail mission.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/remainsinc

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Investors

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