Where are the old clothes for Americans?

November 09, 2022

Where are the Americans' old clothes? According to the Wall Street Journal, several thousand tons of second-hand clothes from the United States or other developed countries are shipped to the ports of Candela in western India every month. Some of these waste clothes are recycled into industrial raw materials, and some are recycled. Drifting across the ocean to the world's largest old clothes market - Africa.

These waste clothes shipped from the United States or other developed countries ranged from sweaters to underwear and eventually reached the conveyor belts of Indian factories. The workers classified them. About 50 percent of the old clothes were exported for secondary sales and resold to other developing countries, most of which were sold to Africa. The remaining clothes that cannot be sold or used twice are processed into rags, transported by truck to the factory, ground into fibers for yarn making, and these yarns are used to make cheap blankets and insulating materials.

According to estimates by Reuters, Kenya imports at least 4,000 second-hand garments each year worth 4.8 billion shillings, or about 300 million yuan.



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