FABSCRAP, a Brooklyn, New York-based textile waste recycling nonprofit, has announced that co-founder Camille Tagle has been promoted to executive director. She previously served as the organization's creative director. The personnel change comes as FABSCRAP marks its tenth anniversary and prepares to expand its recycling, reuse, and waste diversion programs.

Tagle has been with FABSCRAP since she helped found it in 2016. In her new top management role, her focus will be on strengthening textile recycling operations, expanding access to recycled materials, and advancing the community and industry partnerships that sustain the organization.

According to FABSCRAP, over its ten years of operation, the organization has diverted nearly 2.5 million pounds of fabric from the waste system and estimates its work has reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 17,887 tons; more than 11,300 people have volunteered to sort fabrics to advance reuse and recycling.

FABSCRAP operates by partnering with businesses to collect commercial textile waste, then sorting the materials to determine what can be reused or recycled, keeping them out of landfills. Behind this model, the organization continuously invests in its volunteer network, as the sorting process is highly labor-dependent. Over the past year, 96 businesses and community groups participated in activities at its Brooklyn warehouse.

Beyond New York, the organization's reach is also extending: through pop-up collaborations and a bulk reuse program, it now has five partners outside New York City, allowing textiles recovered through recycling to enter a broader market.

"Circularity requires more than innovation," Tagle said. "It requires infrastructure, people, and a commitment to actually doing the work."

FABSCRAP will hold a tenth-anniversary event on September 24 during New York Climate Week, serving as both a commemoration and a fundraiser. The organization said the timing is intended to bring textile waste into the broader climate solutions discussion while connecting industry partners, volunteers, and supporters of waste diversion. Proceeds from the fundraiser will be used to enhance waste diversion capacity, strengthen staffing and operations, and develop more ways to manage commercial textile waste.

Tagle said that over the past decade the organization has been proving that climate action need not be abstract or distant from the people it affects; it can mean mobilizing an industry and activating a local community in tangible ways.

Commercial textile waste—including fabric scraps, samples, and more—often still has potential value but is difficult to fit into conventional recycling systems, requiring dedicated collection, sorting, and corresponding reuse or recycling channels. FABSCRAP's model combines physical infrastructure with volunteer participation and industry partnerships to return usable materials to designers, manufacturers, and other buyers; its expanding bulk reuse program provides another channel for directing recycled textiles to secondary uses.

For FABSCRAP, Tagle's promotion means continuity as the organization enters its second decade. She was involved in its founding and has led creative work since 2016, giving her direct experience with its operating model, community relationships, and connections within the textile industry. The next phase will focus on expanding the scale of material diversion while growing the reuse network and maintaining the volunteer system that supports operations.

Source: FABSCRAP Names Camille Tagle Executive Director as Nonprofit Marks 10 Years · Originally published 2026-09-17