Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
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Re: Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
#2Can "this" and "this" and "this" be donated somewhere and put in good use ?
Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29155488 [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/11/8/chiles-desert-du...
Re: Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
#3It would be great to see systems like this automated recycling system scale up: https://www.fastcompany.com/90616764/bring-your-old-clothes-...
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#4I refuse to fault fast fashion for these issues when the amount of trash free t-shirts given away for free at any conference could probably build a mountain on its own.
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#5I refuse to fault fast fashion for these issues when the amount of trash free t-shirts given away for free at any conference could probably build a mountain on its own.
Was working at a startup and walked past a homeless person wearing our company shirt.
Person wore it every day for many weeks on the same bench.
Only homeless bench on that street. So we had exclusive homeless advertising.
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#6I've taken to buying almost all my clothes second hand recently, both for this reason and I find the selection and styles far better than what fast fashion provides. Thrift stores like Goodwill provide some gems, but the best shopping comes from we-buy-your-clothes type places like Buffalo Exchange and Crossroads, and the prices are better too!
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#7That's conspicuous consumption gone mad, it seems to me too many people have far too much disposable income.
What is it about people that they cannot be content with their clothes in that they have to change them long before they're worn out? This is fashion gone mad.
I never throw out clothes, and I can keep the same items for many years - I've still got jeans, BD dungarees, etc. that I bought over 20 years ago. When they eventually become threadbare I tear them up for cleaning rags.
What the hell is wrong with these people that they can be so wasteful?
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#8Regulate fashion.
For example you might make destruction or stockpiling of unsold clothes a crime. Also ban exporting clothes that were manufactured abroad.
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#9I refuse to fault fast fashion for these issues when the amount of trash free t-shirts given away for free at any conference could probably build a mountain on its own.
The volume of clothes produced and discarded by fast fashion far outweighs whatever is given away at conferences.
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#10I refuse to fault fast fashion for these issues when the amount of trash free t-shirts given away for free at any conference could probably build a mountain on its own.
Those are the opposite of fast fashion, being both completely unfashionable and oddly long-lived. I have event t-shirts that are almost old enough to vote. And then of course, they have a long afterlife, first as painting shirts and finally as cleaning rags.