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‘Dead White Man’s Clothes’: the dirty secret behind the worlds fashion addiction
- underseacables 5y agotl;dr A lot of clothing donated goes to Third World countries, particularly in Africa, where presumably they assume that all of them came from dead white people. Putting aside that I didn’t know only white people wore clothes, there is a huge problem with clothes being wasted, and the sheer scam that is clothing donation bins. Episode of Tiny Spark talks about it: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/clothing-poverty-andrew-brooks/ https://nonprofitquarterly.org/clothing-poverty-andrew-brook...
- wombatmobile 5y ago> Since 2000, global production of clothing has doubled. > We’re buying 60 per cent more clothes now than we did 15 years ago. > But we’re only keeping them for half as long. > An estimated 85 per cent of all textiles go to the dump every year I hardly buy any clothes, preferring to keep them until they wear out beyond repairable. But what can I do with them then? Is there any better way to dispose of textiles than land fill?