The dirty business with old clothes
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Channel: Free High-Quality Documentaries
Views: 1,379,372
Rating: 4.7488713 out of 5
Keywords: Nature, Documentary, HD, Animals, People, Places, Adventures, Countries, Wildlife, Technology, Travel, Portraits, Biography, Science, Old Cloths, collector, container, what happens, Red Cross, Rotes Kreuz, disaster, zone, help, cloths, donation
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Length: 28min 53sec (1733 seconds)
Published: Wed Aug 14 2019
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👍 20 thumbs up for this video. I saw it years ago on Al Jazeera's 'Witness' channel and was gobsmacked by it. Witness buried it unfindably years ago and I've never been able to track it down since then.
Great to see it re-emerge.
The 'donated' clothing market is a 3rd world scandal. Your carefully donated clothing is being blackmarketed to Africa all the way through the system.
Down with fashion in general.
Capitalism will find a way to make all altruism irrelevant.
So what to do with clothes your kids have outgrown and no one else you know wants?
Can confirm the same thing happend in the country of Malawi. Western companys sells donated clothes and the textile market get undermined.
Nobody is going to buy autentic arfrican wear when they can get your stupid worn 80’s mickey mouse shirt for quarter of the price.
I thought donating clothes was the right thing to do. Now I just give it to street people.
Why is that a problem?
Instead of being destroyed, and the clothes makes a little profit for someone who sure does need it AND slows down the textile industry.
That sounds pretty anticonsumption to me.
I honestly don't see the problem..