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Comment by vscode-rest

10 days ago

So many clothes are already shipped to poorer parts of africa that it ends up being essentially indistinguishable from a landfill.

There are more clothes produced worldwide than there are people to wear them. Shipping unwanted refuse to poor counties is treating them as a landfill and patting yourself on the back.

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