Re:Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in...
by mulmen on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:23PM
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Those damaged clothes can be repaired, used as fabric in new clothes, cut into rags or shredded into filling. Throwing them in the trash is the most wasteful thing you can do. All the energy involved in making that fabric is lost.
That being said, after reading articles like this some years ago, I started to throw everything that is actually damaged to the trash (even if it is only a small hole). Maybe I am overdoing it - but I totally understand the mindset of "worst case they will have to trash it in my place".