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Dirty laundry: what really happens to your clothes when you donate them to charity?
Only a fraction gets resold on the domestic secondhand market, but there are ways consumers can help reduce wasteChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.comEvery year, Australians donate the equivalent of 250m pairs of jeans to charity (around 200,000 tonnes of textiles) and send another 200,000 tonnes to landfill.But only a fraction of donated clothes get resold in Australia. So what happens to your old jeans when you donate them? And how can consumers play their part to minimise waste in the process?Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...
Only a fraction gets resold on the domestic secondhand market, but there are ways consumers can help reduce waste
- Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint
- Got a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.com
Every year, Australians donate the equivalent of 250m pairs of jeans to charity (around 200,000 tonnes of textiles) and send another 200,000 tonnes to landfill.
But only a fraction of donated clothes get resold in Australia. So what happens to your old jeans when you donate them? And how can consumers play their part to minimise waste in the process?
Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...
