It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
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#12It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
It's the local people's term for the clothing, which is explained in the article:
> They call them “obroni wawu” — dead white man’s clothes.
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#13It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
It is not the title issue, the title comes from the local language expression:
>They call them "obroni wawu" — dead white man's clothes.
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#14It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
Because controversial headlines generate clicks which allow for ads to be served to monetize the traffic. It's just a loop of bullshit. lol.
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#15It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
It was chosen because of the name given to the clothes by the locals.
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#16When buying clothes, never consider Goodwill or thrift shops as an outlet when you're done with them. Only consider wearing them, repairing them as necessary, as our ancestors did for the rest of your life.
Buy only clothes that will last forever. Thrift shops receive so much more "donations" (read: garbage while the person throwing their stuff away feels good about dropping their garbage on the less fortunate).
There are needy people who can use help clothing themselves. It does not help them to flood Africa with our waste, which buying cheap clothes contributes to.
Also, watch the documentary The True Cost, available free online: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost
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#17We’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…
Retail therapy. More people than ever are disconnected and deeply unhappy and advertising increases the social pressure by telling people they will be happier if they buy "this" or "that".
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#18It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
western countries that dump their trash in poor nations are primarily white.
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#19We’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.
I try to keep the ruined stuff around long enough to use for an oil rag or barrel cleaning patch. After this article I may put a little more effort into doing that.
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#20My 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.
We have 25kg boxes of old bathtowls in our factory for cleaning in our factory (heavy industry).