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Re:Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters by dragonwriter on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:27PM (#27082772)
I know some of it is preemptively-prepared clothing for things that don’t happen, like commemorating championship wins of teams that end up losing. The stuff for the finalists is ready to sell for the day the winner is decided, the actual winners stuff is sold and the rest is dumped overseas.
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Re:Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters by mschuster91 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:56AM (#27084937)
> the rest is dumped overseas.

Or worse, shredded outright. In Germany alone, 230 million pieces of clothing (or 10% of the year's offering) are shredded without ever being worn (https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article203216646/Bekleidung-H...).

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