The Owino Market in Uganda's capital has long been a go-to enclave for rich and poor people alike looking for affordable but quality-made used clothes, underscoring perceptions that Western fashion is superior to what is made at home.
Yeah, the percent of what is actually sold and what is donated would be good info.
Like, are we shipping and fumigating 10 tons of clothes and only 1 ton eventually gets sold and the other 9 just goes in someone else’s dump halfway around the world?
This is one of those things where it’s entirely possible we’re making problems worse by trying to help. Just the carbon costs shipping it would be significant.
Gently used. They would not be able to sell the holey shirts and pants I get rid of
Yeah, the percent of what is actually sold and what is donated would be good info.
Like, are we shipping and fumigating 10 tons of clothes and only 1 ton eventually gets sold and the other 9 just goes in someone else’s dump halfway around the world?
This is one of those things where it’s entirely possible we’re making problems worse by trying to help. Just the carbon costs shipping it would be significant.
Oh I don’t actually donate those. I use them for rags or toss or make shorts or such.
Real westerners outgrow their clothes before they outwear them. Even in their 20s and 30s.
I have not outgrown clothes in a long long time. Well not in a good way anyway.