"Much of this isn’t conspicuous consumption..." Perhaps not. However where I live the amount of dumped clothing is unbelievable. Charities that once used to t

"Much of this isn’t conspicuous consumption..." Perhaps not. However where I live the amount of dumped clothing is unbelievable. Charities that once used to take almost any amount of clothing now do not. Instead, they'll take the top 10% of it and dump the rest - 'dump' here means send the rest overseas to third world countries. Moreover, not that many years ago, these charities used to have used clothing collection bins - great big steel boxes about as tall as a person with a hinged lid at top - scattered all over conspicuous parts of the city and they have been all removed because the charities no longer want the responsibility of dumping huge volumes of stuff (as it's many times more than they can cope with and it's long past the point where if they were to accept the clothing then it would cost them money to it. Essentially, these charities have been overwhelmed by the sheer volume of clothing. Now, they are very picky about what they will accept. If one now wants to give clothes to a charitity then one has to take it there themselves. The charitity will then pick the eyes out of it and what it does not want the donor will have to find somewhere to dump the remainer. Now, much clothing goes directly into the trash can thence to landfill. If you wondered why my post was so cynical now you know.