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Where do used clothes ultimately end up?2024 Apr 28
When you've worn a clothing a dozen, two dozen, three dozen times and it's starting to get too worn for you to think it's decent, you send it away to a clothing recycler. What they do they do with it? Turns out, a lot of it despite attempts at innovating repurposing ends up dumped in the desert in Chile and set on fire. This lengthy article goes into how and why, and what people are doing about it. You can see this spot for yourself on the Google Maps.
When you've worn a clothing a dozen, two dozen, three dozen times and it's starting to get too worn for you to think it's decent, you send it away to a clothing recycler. What they do they do with it? Turns out, a lot of it despite attempts at innovating repurposing ends up dumped in the desert in Chile and set on fire. This lengthy article goes into how and why, and what people are doing about it. You can see this spot for yourself on the Google Maps.