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Old clothes are still used to make paper in many developing countries.
Old clothes are still used to make paper in many developing countries.
Cloth-based paper is in nearly every respect superior to wood pulp–based paper. The big challenge with rags for paper is the die in the cloth.
This is probably where all of the unsold Goodwill clothes go. They bale it up (at least around here) and sell it by the lb.