This article is part of HuffPosts Reclaim campaign, an ongoing project spotlighting the worlds waste crisis and how we can begin to solve it.

As discarded clothing piles up in landfills around the country , a handful of companies are trying to save some of those garments and give them new life.

The Renewal Workshop is one of these. It takes shirts, jackets and other items damaged during manufacturing, then repairs and resells them for 30 to 50 percent off the original price, co-founder Nicole Bassett told The Huffington Post. Its goal is to prevent imperfect items, which traditional retailers cant sell in stores, from being tossed in the trash.

The Renewal Workshop is currently raising funds on Indiegogo and will begin selling these so-called renewed garments on its website in late October.

Companies fighting clothing waste have their work cut out for them. The average American throws out 70 pounds of clothing or household textiles a year. Only 15 percent of that is recycled , according to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency. The other 85 percent around 13 million tons of textiles in 2013 ends up in landfills, where it decomposes alongside other solid wastes, releases greenhouse gasses and contributes to global warming .