Re:Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
by pkaye on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:00AM
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> According to Jennifer Hyman, the C.E.O. of Rent the Runway, I am not alone. “Every woman has the feeling of opening up her closet and seeing the dozens of dead dresses that she’s worn only once,” she told me recently. Each year, as Hyman is fond of pointing out, the average American buys sixty-eight items of clothing, eighty per cent of which are seldom worn; twenty per cent of what the $2.4-trillion global fashion industry generates is thrown away.
So its probably a made up statistic so they can justify their business model of renting clothes.
Re:Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
by ht_th on Saturday January 22, 2022 @04:06AM
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On the other hand, if this number also includes socks, underwear, rain wear, winter wear, sports clothing, swim clothing, etc., it might be less absurd. And don't get me started on clothing for young children, of course.
Still, when you say "68 items of clothing", most people think pants, blouses, dresses, costumes, and the like. But that's the fun with statistics :-(
https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=-4ODDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=...
They don't seem to have a source. Not linked anyways. Sources might be listed at the end of the book.
ETA: Ah, they have the "source" in "notes." They are quoting a CEO of a retailer, so I guess they wouldn't ask sources. You would need to "fact-check" the CEO. ;)
I suppose you could just skip over all parts of the book which talks about numbers, because it's too much work to track those down to see if they are legit.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/rent-the-runwa...
> According to Jennifer Hyman, the C.E.O. of Rent the Runway, I am not alone. “Every woman has the feeling of opening up her closet and seeing the dozens of dead dresses that she’s worn only once,” she told me recently. Each year, as Hyman is fond of pointing out, the average American buys sixty-eight items of clothing, eighty per cent of which are seldom worn; twenty per cent of what the $2.4-trillion global fashion industry generates is thrown away.