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Instead of letting the clothes go to a landfill, where they can cause a host of environmental problems, Suay has rescued 50,000lbs of textiles so they can be cleaned, sorted and upcycled by professional designers and sewers. Since LA currently has no permanent textile recycling or collection, it’s up to groups like Suay to save as many textiles as possible before they get dumped or exported.
“To see the overwhelming influx of textiles donations here in Los Angeles in response to the devastating wildfires just shows how the current systems in place have failed us all,” said Suay’s co-founder and CEO Lindsay Rose Medoff. “We have to draw the connections to our everyday consumption and disposal habits. Until we draw these connections, the same overproduction that is impacting our climate and resulting in these disasters will continue to strengthen.”
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My guess is the Goodwill Profit Corporation rummages through the items, grabs the good stuff and auctions it off online, then tosses the junk in bins and lets people go through it to find stuff to put on eBay.
The article was clear on what happens to the items …
Suay has rescued 50,000lb of textiles so they can be cleaned, sorted and upcycled by professional designers and seamstresses/seamsters.
Please don’t guess when it’s clearly stated what does go on. Or if you have proof otherwise, post it.
So, exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. Not sure why you’re angry about it.
Donated good being used for profit is the topic.
Because you specifically called out a non-profit rather than the for-profits owned by private equity firms.
I see no difference. Goodwill, for example, is a profit company operating as non-profit. They used to be a place where your donations were made available to the public. My grandmother used to say, “if you have something nice that you won’t use, give it to someone who needs it.” She wasn’t rich rich but she had that “lost generation” money. All her clothes were designer. She would give them to goodwill so women could dress well and get jobs.
Today, anything with any value is collected at the donation site and shipped to a larger regional center where it is put online for auction.
Feel free to browse at https://shopgoodwill.com/
Then maybe Canadian and American Goodwill stores operate differently. Canada’s Goodwill stores are specifically set up to provide employment to people with physical, developmental, mental, emotional or social challenges. They are regionally overseen, have zero corporate ownership and the boards consist of volunteers.
Or ships it off to a country struggling to develop its economy so they can crash that country’s textile industry.
Fun fact. Shirts get printed for both sides of many things. Sports championships, elections, you name it.
These shirts make their way to 3rd world countries. So there are people wearing X championship and president X 2020/2024 on them.
Yup! I remember watching a documentary on I think Sudan or another north African country some years back, and there was a dude in the background with a 2017 Superbowl Atlanta championship tshirt (Pats won), and I was really confused.
At a glance you’d think it was a nice gesture to donate unused clothes. But you know they marked it as a tax write off at $40 a piece for the “sports apparel”
I miss thrift stores being thrift stores.
I only got to experience the tail end of the good days. Once they all started pricing things in the context of the national or global market, instead of their local community, things got bad.
Yeah. Amazon is cheaper than any Thrift store. That is not how it should be.
That overpricing started decades ago when Value Village and Savers (Canada & America) opened up their first for-profit stores under the guise of sending part of the profits to the diabetes society and other non-profits. But there is no public info I can find stating what percentage is donated, so it’s likely mininal at best.
Now Value Village is owned by private equity firms Ares Management and Crescent Capital Group. Make of that what you will knowing how private equity firms operate.
Gross.
