What happens to those clothes you donate to Goodwill? Here is another in the NPR series on what happens to used clothes overseas.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/10/247362140/the-afterlife-of-american-clothes
When you donate clothes to a charity, the charity in all cases pays people to sort them out by grade and season and purpose. Next the charity has already auctioned off the supply of each category, some sent to upscale used clothing stores, some off to foreign lands at the direction of exporters, and some diverted to the salesroom floor for local purchase, where you can pop some tags, if only $20 in your pocket. In this way you used clothes either clothe the poor locally, or worldwide, where some revenue makes it back to the charity to do its work.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/10/247362140/the-afterlife-of-american-clothes
When you donate clothes to a charity, the charity in all cases pays people to sort them out by grade and season and purpose. Next the charity has already auctioned off the supply of each category, some sent to upscale used clothing stores, some off to foreign lands at the direction of exporters, and some diverted to the salesroom floor for local purchase, where you can pop some tags, if only $20 in your pocket. In this way you used clothes either clothe the poor locally, or worldwide, where some revenue makes it back to the charity to do its work.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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