Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Where many of the clothes you throw away end up
Have you ever thought of where donated or collected used-clothes go? Basically, most of the clothes that are still in good shape are sent or sold to those in need. But the others are often sent overseas for recycling, mostly to India, where there are numbers of vendors that buy, recycle and sell them to even poorer countries in Africa.
It sounds like an environmentally friendly cycle before the carbon footprint of the transportation and working and processing conditions are taken into calculation.
But there is severe pressure to this recycling model in India. Man-made fabrics such as polyester are getting more economical than these recycled materials and many of such recycling operators have gone out of business.
Enjoy reading and learning what the recycling process of clothes is like in India.
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