LOL Welcome to my world kids. "Everything old is new again." Except
us. This was "news" back in the 60's. It wasn't news when my middle
class aunt, who hung with people who had more money, did her shopping in
out of town thrift stores. The "upscale" thrift stores near our college campuses haven't been news for many decades. These days I find a lot of
my best shirts in online used clothing because that's faster and easier
than hitting Goodwill. I still have some Goodwill stores I like to hit
every now and then.
They're wrong about what happens to Goodwill's leftovers. Most of
it gets sorted into bales by quality and then auctioned off. Our used
clothes go on to disrupt the market for clothing in many third world
countries because the local manufacturers can't compete with our cast offs.
"Americans generated 13 million tons of clothing and footwear waste in
2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Cutting down
those numbers is a daunting task, but some young people are turning to
thrift shopping to help the environment and their wallets. Rhode Island
PBS Weekly's Isabella Jibilian reports."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/costs-of-fast-fashion-fuel-a-rise-in-thrift-shopping
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