Comment by hinkley
10 days ago
I’ve heard there’s a practice of selling bundles of clothes to Africa and then the purchases pick through the bundle for what’s good and what’s useless. The impression I was left with is that this used to be more lucrative but now you’re almost as likely to get complete garbage as something good. So it’s like a sad loot box.
It's a big issue in Africa, as it completely destroyed to local clothing industry. As a side effect, you see people wearing westerner style clothing even in the midst of Africa, which is quite unsettling.
Now that you mention it, whatever I was watching that talked about this, also addressed the negative impact on the local textile industry.
So do you expect this law will increase the amount of dumping? Sounds like it might.