Do you have a closet full of clothes you don’t wear? Boxes of seasonal wear piled up in the basement? Piles and piles of clothes you have no idea what to do with? If you do, you’re not alone. It’s estimated the average American buys twice as much clothing as they did 20 years ago. Any way you add that up, that’s a lot of clothing, much of it sitting on hangars hardly worn. So what can you do with all that extra clothing? One of the best things you can do is to donate it. Surveys have shown that…
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As one might expect, the textile industry is one of the largest in the entire world, spanning clothing, personal accessories like hats and gloves, and table linens or bedding. This industry is worth over $2.5 trillion dollars around the world and employs many people, and the United States alone is the world’s single largest buyer and producer of such clothing. As of 2016, for a recent example, the American apparel market was worth close to $315 billion, and may reach $385 billion by 2025 or so. Americans are buying more clothes than ever before, about twice as many as just…
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If you’d like to be environmentally conscious and recycle, but are not sure what can be recycled, the answer is simple: nearly everything can be recycled or reused. Of course paper, plastics and glass can be recycled – everyone knows that. But food can be composted, and used clothing and household items can be donated to charities that will use them to help those in need. In fact many charities will even set up a used clothing pick up, depending on the number of items you have. Should you donate clothes to charity? It’s easy to bring your used clothes…
