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Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

“What I can say is they end up in countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America.”

Lol, okay. Let's fuck with their timeline of history by giving them merchandise of a team that lost the big one when it says on a shirt that they did.

Only America.

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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s not really important history to be fair.

The bigger deal is it can fuck with local economies:

The International Impact of Donated Clothing borgenproject.org/the-international-impact-of-don…

While exporting used clothing helps repurpose material from the U.S., it can seriously undermine the textile industries of developing countries.

And still harms the environment:

Your used clothing donation may be doing more harm than good news.mcmaster.ca/used-clothing-donation-garments-…

In addition to clogged drains, each day about 154,000 lbs. of used clothing leaves Accra’s main garment market bound for a dump on the banks of the Korle Lagoon.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Hard to wrap my head around the fact that we send so many clothes to Africa that it’s fucking up their economies and polluting like that. I learned about this years ago and it’s still a thing?!
  
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