Exporting Used Textiles Helps Global and Local Economies

Donating used clothing to charities obviously helps clothe and employ fellow Americans, but other benefits fly below the radar: exporting worn textiles provides income to low- and middle-income foreign countries, and also helps the environment. That win-win-win situation gives new meaning to the phrase, “giving the shirt off your back.”

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Textile waste management in Australia: A review - ScienceDirect

Dead white man's clothes: How fast fashion is turning parts of Ghana into toxic landfill - ABC News

For Dignity and Development, East Africa Curbs Used Clothes Imports - The New York Times

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Fast Fashion, Global Trade, and Sustainable Abundance

Bye bye bye: Europe's problem with used textiles exports