#its just factually incorrect

[3liza]

only about 20% of donations to thrift shops are sold in retail locations. The remaining majority of used clothes are handled in numerous ways, including being exported to lower-income countries and landfilled. This contributes to environmental harm. This number is even higher when we consider the fact that large numbers of low-quality or damaged items are discarded at the first sorting.

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What happens to secondhand clothes that don’t sell? Estimates from the United States show that only about 20% of textile donations are sold through thrift shops, while the remaining 80% are sold to resellers [editor's Note: by "reseller" this article is not referring to Depop sellers the top post is referring to, they mean commercial resellers], sorters, and graders, repurposed into low-quality textile materials for stuffing or rags, and sent for disposal. 45% of this remaining amount is domestically and internationally reused and resold, 50% is used for low-grade textile needs, and 5% is landfilled or incinerated. The fiber-to-fiber recycling only amounts to about 1% of this amount. (NIST, 2022, Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles Workshop Report) . Almost half of all second-hand clothing donations that don’t sell are exported to different countries. While African countries receive the majority of low-quality items, Latin America receives the medium-quality pieces, and the high-quality, branded items are exported to Japan which has a rich second-hand clothing market. (Hansen, 2010) . It is estimated that between 40-75% of textile donations that don’t sell are resold in bulk to textile sorters, graders, and brokers by charitable donations like thrift shops. These textile recyclers across the United States and Northwestern Europe transport their bulk second-hand textile purchases to warehouses and sorting plants, where the textiles are sorted according to different properties like fiber content, weight, quality, fabric type, and garment type. This intensive sorting labor is often done by underpaid immigrant workers in poor working conditions. (Hansen, 2010) . According to Southern California Goodwill’s vice president of retail operations Ray Tellez, Goodwill locations across the Southern Californian region track how long each piece is displayed for sale in the retail locations and the pieces that aren’t sold in 4 weeks are sent to Goodwill outlet stores. These outlet stores usually sell items for lower prices and per weight (i.e. 99 cents per pound of clothing) in an effort to keep donated and second-hand textiles out of landfills. While there are regional differences in how Goodwills across North America handle this process, this general outline of the process is the same in different regions. (Strutner, 2021) (Goodwill Outlet Store Locator) . According to Brittany Dickinson, who is the manager of sustainability for Goodwill Industries International, only half of all donated clothing is suitable for sale to retail customers through online or offline stores. The remaining half of donations are either sold to Goodwill outlets or to salvage dealers. Of the 50% that’s approved for sale to retail customers, only 38-48% of pieces are sold within the approved time frame. The rest is first sent to Goodwill outlets and later sold in bulk to salvage dealers. (Chiu, 2023) . Buffalo Exchange, which is another popular thrift store in North America, purchases second-hand clothes from their owners rather than accepting donations. For pieces that aren’t in a good enough condition to be bought by Buffalo Exchange and resold, they collect donations for local non-profits. The second-hand pieces that do not get sold in their regular retail locations are sent to their outlet stores in Texas and Arizona. (Porter, 2019)

there is so much unsold clothing from the secondhand market in the United States that we have collapsed the textile industries of several other countries by exporting unsold thrift store donations to the global south. there is no shortage of second hand clothing and never will be. resellers could not possibly buy enough donated clothing from thrift stores to ever make a dent in the global supply even if their market segment (which is borderline nonexistent) was double the size it is now. ask anyone who has actually worked at a Goodwill or Value Village about this, they'll tell you the vast majority of donated clothing goes straight to outlets/landfill/exports, and the majority of the remaining clothing that actually ends up on racks sits there until its time expires and it ends up at the outlet/export/landfill. there is no conspiracy of Etsy resellers taking all the good clothes away from you. it's an entirely invented moral panic from TikTok and I don't think the people I see posting about it ever actually shop secondhand, and if they do they've never been to a Goodwill outlet where they sell (yes, even plus size) clothing shoes and textiles for a dollar a POUND.

Becky who buys one XL sun dress a month to flip on depop couldn't budge the global export market if she got venture capital backing for it. it's just too big, and Americans buy and donate too many new clothes, for individuals to do anything about it in either direction.

thrift store resellers are like if landlords were egirls

[dukeofthomas]

I can't find it now but there's a post about suspension of disbelief and how it's broken when the story starts trying to excuse it. "character gets knocked unconscious for hours but there's no further issues from this" okay 👍 "and actually this makes perfect sense because of this and that" um no it doesn't why are you lying to me. like i am willing to ignore the holes and the discrepancies!! all you need to do is let me and not bring unnecessary attention to it!!!

and all that is my issue with the whole robin child soldier argument. like i am willing to ignore it i am willing to engage with the fantasy literally all you need to do is NOT try to convince me that Actually It's Fine Because They Want To Do It or whatever. like literally just shut up about it and i can engage with the fantasy!!

[everlarkyuri]

theres a poster of “women heros” in my ap world history class and i spotted katniss everdeen… that drawing is not my katniss everdeen dawg she is not pale like that😭 and the description is pretty ill fitting? It doesnt give justice as to why katniss was actually a hero… her volunteering was a selfless act and yes heroic, but she did start a revolution for the oppressed and took down two tyrants at 17 years old…. Maybe we should talk about that and not celebrate the fact that she participated in the killing of 22 kids when the whole point of the trilogy is that being a victor is NOT heroic😭

[thescreaminghat]

anton fellner is such a weird little freak (affectionate). he's conventionally attractive and a platinum blonde so he could probably get away with anything if he really tried. he could probably have just worked a regular post in reinhard's new regime after making any excuse to transfer out from being obie's assistant. but the moment he gets in proximity to the aforementioned Older Man with Problems he's suddenly like "wow my new boss is such a gremlin. he's got the most flexible moral fibre this side of the universe---besides myself--- and he's probably also fucking insane. i want to observe him like i'm an entomologist tenderly dissecting a new species of bug. maybe i'll even kill him" (he doesn't). and then he just spends the next several years being emotionally invested in the drama caused by obie's various hypocrisies. he's so special to me

[tears-of-boredom]

DecolonizePalestine -FAQ:

There is a common misconception, that in order to be objective you need to be neutral. These concepts can be connected but they do not necessarily follow from each other. Having two points of view does not automatically mean that both points of view are equally legitimate or based in reality, or that the truth has to be located somewhere in the middle. For example, you can of course bring two opposing sides to discuss if climate change is real or not, but treating them both as equally valid and of equal worth when one is backed by scientific consensus and the other isn’t is not a fair and balanced representation of reality. It is a false equation of two sides simply for being two different sides. This actually gives legitimacy to reactionary and anti-scientific positions. Similarly, Israeli colonialism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is an objective fact. Maintaining a neutral position on this war crime is not only immoral, but enables Israel to commit further heinous acts in the future.

[match-your-steps]

just read a review of the lego movie from 2014 and it is genuinely a horrible piece of literature and through perusing the comments underneath the review, I have gained an intense dislike of the reviewer. it's not even that I liked the lego movie and he didn't it's just that a lot of the stuff he says is factually incorrect, really stupid-sounding, or he doesn't provide any real reason, and in the comments, he reacts to even the friendliest and politest constructive criticism as if it's a personal attack on him.

[0809sysblings]

i think the most trivial, stupid thing i get irked (and i use this word in the LIGHTEST way possible, please understand) by when i see it is the "Mikoto calls himself a fashion designer when he tucks his shirt into his sweatpants" joke.

and i dont care when it comes to the making fun of him aspect. please by all means make fun of this man! i support bullying (affectionate) him.

the thing that "irks" me is... they arent even sweatpants!!!! theyre not sweatpants, you must believe me. i have a pair of pants Very similar to his (only differences being it has an extra set of pockets and its greener in color), and they are not sweatpants. i know, they look like them (sorta...). its mostly the drawstring part. but, and i do not know Why, it has become a bit of a trend in the recent years to give more pants that drawstring style of waist. so if anything the fact that he's wearing pants like that just gives him being a fashion designer more merit.

thank you for watching this episode of Jokebusters. proudly sponsored by Autism Spectrum Disorder

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

“fiction by its nature cannot contain inaccuracies, only anachronisms” wrong. lie in the ground and bake bagels

[ileftherbackhome]

it does NOT surprise me that there are SO MANY tabloid movies coming out being labelled as "documentaries" filled with "friend of a friend of a friend" claims or like heavily, heavily, heavily biased with a clear narrative the filmmaker wanted to push from the beginning that tells only one possible explanation of the truth.

usually if a documentary is trying really, really, really, really hard to make you think a certain way, it's a propaganda piece. you shouldn't have to force feed your audience the "right" opinion to take away from the film evidence. you should present the full story as accurately as possible with real historical evidence to back up the storyline and the audience will walk away with the right idea.

documentaries should not have an overly persuasive tone to them because you should be able to follow the facts to get to the right answer yourself. if you find yourself walking away from a documentary feeling nothing but "wow this proves exactly what i suspected to be true why arent more people angry about niche radicalizing viewpoint that most people find to be inaccurate" you should recognize that as the first step to being indoctrinated into extremist behaviors and thoughts.

[florentium]

Trying to keep my history thoughts on the matter to myself online so that I don't get turbo cancelled but I just have to point out that there is a huge difference between THE British Museum and A British museum.

For Christ's sake.

[bitegore]

HUH. i think i just got, like attempted-converted but i did not notice LMFAO

[grellestie]

people who think grelle would harm kids on purpose are cringe send tweet

[kurokoros]

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I'm not a patriotic person by any means, but there's no one more insufferable than a european or australian that shit talks america constantly. "your health care sucks" we know. "your education system sucks" we know. "blah blah blah insensitive jab about school shootings"

does that make you feel good, you insufferable, snobby little bitch?

[makerofmadness]

I use Safari and I'm not gonna change that

me and my 500 tabs are happy

[torahtot]

ok. ok. everything is fine. picked a college and my dad wants me to wait and not enroll til saturday night or sunday while we do more research on loans (i dont like this idea i already know im going here and it's not like i have a better price anywhere else so why not just enroll now but ok) but then. then. finally. ill be finished

[kalmeria]

sometimes i wish there was a way to dislike posts on here. not take back a like but dislike it. i cant kungpowpenis everybody who says something really dumb nor am i gonna argue with random strangers or send anon hate. i just want to leave a mark that says i did see that post and i did not like it