Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
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#2> The number of garments produced annually has doubled since 2000 and exceeded 100 billion for the first time in 2014: nearly 14 items of clothing for every person on earth
That may not be as outrageous as it seems. The world population may not have doubled since 2000, but the number of people out of deep poverty may have, so of course they'll buy clothing.
That still doesn't excuse fast fashion, which is so wasteful.
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#3Nice drone footage
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#4We’re buying 60 per cent more clothes now than we did 15 years ago.
This is something I find baffling. I have a clothes closet and a chest of drawers. They comfortably hold more than enough for me to go a week or two without doing laundry. When I've worn too many holes in something for me to patch and use as outdoor work wear it goes in the garbage.
That people have such an addiction to buying new clothes they have to throw away or donate intact clothes is utterly perverse.
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#5My local charity/recycling bin for clothes/garment explicitly asks for permanently stained or ripped clothes as these can be used as cloth in factories.
I’d be pretty pissed if they just ship it out to the third world and rip off some local business man.
I could have thrown it out locally. No need to ship trash to Africa.
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#6Flagged because of the trendy racist title - would articles titled 'xxx black man's xxx xx xxxx distaster' be accepted? They would not, so neither should this pass the bill.
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#7My local charity/recycling bin for clothes/garment explicitly asks for permanently stained or ripped clothes as these can be used as cloth in factories. I’d be pretty pissed if they just ship it out to the third world and rip off some local business man. I could have thrown it out locally. No need to ship trash to Africa.
10 years ago or so I saw plastic wapped bundles of shredded cottonwear in the shelves at a mechanic shop I frequented at the time so some of it clearly has taken that path.
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#8> The number of garments produced annually has doubled since 2000 and exceeded 100 billion for the first time in 2014: nearly 14 items of clothing for every person on earth That may not be as outrageous as it seems. The world population may not have doubled since 2000, but the number of people out of deep poverty may have, so of course they'll buy clothing. That still doesn't excuse fast fashion, which is so wasteful…
That's not outrageous. The only part that might be is that some people have 1-2 sets of clothes for years while others have 50+ every few months.
But tbf at least they're donated en masse.
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#9Does social media have a part in this? People have to keep up with “influencer” trends?
Re: Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
#10We’re buying 60 per cent more clothes now than we did 15 years ago. This is something I find baffling. I have a clothes closet and a chest of drawers. They comfortably hold more than enough for me to go a week or two without doing laundry. When I've worn too many holes in something for me to patch and use as outdoor work wear it goes in the garbage. That people have such an addiction to buying new clothes they have t…
That you're downvoted shows the general mindset of people. They just don't give a fuck.
Spare me the "do your part to save the planet" next time. I'm already doing more than 99% ever will.
Yeah, when it comes to clothes I wear them for years. I feel bad throwing out stuff that's literally unfixable. But I ain't quite right in the head tbf.