Thank you to Angela for caring, for taking a stand, and teacher her daughter the right thing. Think about ways to recycle clothing. There are PLENTY of gently used items out there. There is a local store that people donate/buy from, that is sponsored by a local Cancer care center to raise funds. Be thoughtful, and creative.
I had a friend who told me they avoid watching the news because she doesnt want to feel sad. But I feel it's important that we even take the time to hear people's stories and see what's going on in the world.
This kind of thing will always remind me of the show Daria. My favorite line “That's why they want to talk to you. When they say, "You're always unhappy, Daria," what they mean is, "You think Daria. I can tell because you don't smile. Now this guy died and it makes me think and that hurts my little head and makes me stop smiling. So, tell me how you cope with thinking all the time, Daria, until I can get back to my normal vegetable state." Most people can’t handle the truth
We need to start caring and making conscious choices. Mostly all of my clothing is from second hand stores or from friends. We dont need more stuff. We need more love, more peace and more community!
I wear m stuff for decades. When it get worn, I use it to do creative patchwork on other items. I reuse as much as I can, even making toys for my dog before it eventually has to be thrown away.
I live in the CA desert in the winter where thrifting is huge. I find most of my things from these places and vintage stores. I don’t even know where to buy new clothes
Agreed! We shop second hand as much as possible. Also, I think it would be helpful if the people on the news and with celebrity status didn't wear a different outfit every time they're on TV. It would do a lot to spread the word by seeing high visible people reducing and re-using clothing, wearing less make up.
"You can't really blame the manufacturers. If you just recycled more..." Excuse me? These are the exact tactics companies have been using for decades to shift responsibility to the consumer. Where do you think these random mounds of discarded clothes came from? Either by unsold fashions the company got rid of or the influx of donated clothes dropped off at thrift stores. The issue already exists by the time it reaches consumers - telling consumers if they just spent a little less money on clothing and a little more time recycling is antithetical to the larger issue. Clothes are made cheaply today. Pretty much all (affordable) fashion is fast fashion, that means people's clothing is wearing faster, warping faster, tearing faster, they don't last. Trend cycles have become increasingly fast as a result of social media. This is the result of culture curated into overconsumption. Blaming consumers for company overproduction and free use of plastics that won't biodegrade for items that have a short use cycle is exactly what allows companies to continue their behavior. America doesn't even have a nationalized comprehensible recycling system, how can you possibly say "just recycle more" and expect the problem to go away?
Yup, plus the marketing from manufacturers brainwashes people to believe they need new clothing each season. The problem 100 percent starts with corporate greed, but individual people need to change their behavior too.
Unfortunately, we have the same attitude towards throwing something in the trash as placing something for recycling: it’s out of sight, so it’s out of mind. We hope that what we recycle will actually be recycled, but we often don’t know the process. Sometimes, things sent for recycling end up in landfills anyway.
Part of the problem is by the time the recycling plant gets the items most of it is unusable. It gets mixed with unrecyclable stuff, gets ruined, or items with the recycling symbol are not actually recyclable. We were lied to about how practical recycling was in reality. But probably part of the problem was environmentalists had rose-colored glasses on. Thinking their push to recycle would somehow just make it all magically happen, and it did, but it couldn't go nearly as far as people thought and then promised. When it didn't happen, it was a case of "just pretend goals were met".
I honestly can't remember the last time I threw fabric or clothing away, usually make quilts, pillows, cat beds, critter hammocks, rag rugs, or basket wraps.
Yeah, i don't understand who's throwing these clothes away. If i have something that's not good quality i hold onto it. If it's good quality i donate it in hopes they don't throw it out. Maybe it's from people who are suddenly becoming homeless and have too much to deal with. Idk
@@terenarosa4790ppl who are ignorant like myself, until seeing this. My bad but also many do it who don’t know their right hand from their left. You know this. The world’s not small, narrow, or pure
@@terenarosa4790 thrift stores are receive a lot of donations but if they’re not bought, they eventually end up in a landfill (they need to make room for the new clothes they receive). This is why it’s better to shop at thrift stores before shopping at major retail stores.
Thanks for bringing awareness to a news channel as big as CBS. I will say finding recycling facilities and bins are strangely difficult. The avg American consumer has a hard time finding the proper bin and even then it ends up in the trash or in landfills. Until recycling or a better system becomes easier for the avg person, people won't do it. Something needs to be done.
This has less value as a reply to you and more as a statement from me, as I'm not being very courteous, but this opinion is negligent. Blaming ease of recycling on the reason fills like this exist is just a lazy form of self-preservation. These fills do NOT exist because recycling is hard, or inaccessable, it is strictly because of the overconsumption of clothing. Textile recycling is hard in quantity beyond landfills or combustion plants, and even worse with cheaper textiles that rely on synthetic materials that the majority of these dumped clothes are made of. We should always pursue better, more impactful forms of industrial recycling, of course, but this issue isn't going to be solved by that. As the idiom goes; do more good, not less bad. People need to purchase less clothes, and make more of an effort to upcycle and repurpose them before tossing them to an industrial complex to deal with.
Fair, but I didn't say recycling was the sole purpose for the issue highlighted here. Numerous factors are at play here, but I highlighted recycling. Though you do bring up valid points. I'm just saying that recycling does not always do what it's supposed to-- When people do think they are recycling, majority of the time, it does not end up recycled and the articles end up in places like the one shown in this video. @@goodvibes4891
I am positive there are impoverished people everywhere who could use this clothing. I never, ever throw clothing away unless it’s filthy and no one should wear it and then I try to use it for rags. I always donate them. This is another sigh of human selfishness. It’s a crime on many levels that should be stopped.
That is part of the system problem. People who donate their clothes, don’t realize that only a certain percentage are sold or given to being used again. The rest are sent to landfills. We need a better recycling system and need to consume less. The companies need to produce less too.
@@AbbyyenaYour donation can also end up in landfills. Unless your clothes are high end fashion, or new, they will be sold as bulk and the people who buy bulk are the ones who are dumping what they cant sell on .
@@Abbyyena Companies producing less means less profit for shareholders. It also means fewer paid jobs for people in low-income countries. You're talking about an entire economic system change. That hasn't happened since the Russian revolution of 1917.
I rarely shop for clothing nowadays. Anything I need is already in my closet. Recently been pulling old, slightly used clothes, shoes, other stuff and donating them to thrift stores. I'm striving towards a minimalist life.
Wish people would wear clothes out and be proud of wearing30 yr old sweaters with 10 yr old jeans. This is something you can't recycle your way out of. A complete value shift is called for.
I’m on vacation visiting family in the UK and this town I’m in I’ve only found 1 store and all the other stores are charity shops where everyone shops mostly.
Considering 80% of clothes Used to be made of cotton, linen or wool. Now 80% of cothes are made from rayon, polyester, nylon, acrylic and/or spandex. It is So Hard to find anything that is 100% cotton, linen or wool these days.
Natural fibers instead of plastic. We do need some items of synthetics, ie. Rain gear, waterproof items. Most current clothing is cheap plastic crap of very poor construction and quality. I refuse to buy it
Clothes shopping should be done intentionally. I haven't gotten new clothes in about 2 years... I can't believe some people empty out their closets to start new every change of season.
In many cities in CA, there are Buy Nothing Groups that are comprised of neighbors in the close-by area. The members offer used or new stuffs, food, or clothes that are no longer needed. I have got a lot of clothes, shoes, household things, bedsheets, & etc from the group & love the group. I rarely have to spend money on shopping for clothes or household stuffs.
I think that's insane too. I still own the same clothes I bought 10 years ago. I only buy things I love and I buy classic stuff that doesn't go out of style.
@@ucsbgirlie18 Yep, me too. I have no heat right now, so I did buy a couple of merino wool sweaters to layer with clothes I already have, but I consider that a need. Other than things like that, I haven't bought close in at least 15 years. People used to harass me at work because I have perfectly good, but outdated clothes. I told them that about the second time the same fashion comes around, you realize they are just forcing you to spend your money. If you want to waste money that's fine. I have better things to do with mine. Like saving to eventually get my heat fixed.
I used fast fashion to replenish my closet and donated all clothes I grew out of to a domestic violence shelter, but I’ll wear my clothes until they wear out and have adopted a minimalist mindset recently for better mental health
Here's the problem with that: Cotton as a crop consumes a huge amount of water, depletes the soil dreadfully, and requires a LOT of herbicide and insecticide. Processing cotton into fabric is also an ecological disaster. It's NOT "all to do with synthetic clothing": It's all to do with people buying too much stuff, not taking care of it, getting bored with it, and tossing it out to make room for the NEXT batch of dump-fodder.
I save my old textiles and fabrics and use them for fill and stuffing for pillows, floor pillows, ornaments, and plushies. You need a lot more than you think to fill up those stuff. I put socks, towels, fabric scraps. I cut them all up and use them.
Walk into any store and you'll see lots of small and medium sizes on sale. Same in any thrift store. Average size is a 16 yet stores buy thousands of smalls and mediums, but very few larger sizes that people actually wear. Larger sizes sell out 1st and rarely found in thrift stores or on clearance sale. And they keep over producing small sizes.
Absolutely, I have worn a 2X for a long time, I purchase 2X now and they are too small. I have not gained weight. Our clothing is being made in China and they are being made smaller. You are correct about there being too many small and medium. I needed a new coat, looked online and they were all labeled that they run small.
@@Dainty213I’m not obese, but I wear large sizes (10 or 12 depending on the brand). And at 5’6”, even if I could fit into a small or medium item of clothing, it would be too short. So (😨shocker) there are people who are not obese, but who are also not small or medium. Sheesh.
This is just shameful for H&M and other clothing company on how they advertise to dumb old clothes in their stores for recycling and they are ending up in the landfill.
@@windycitykitty Clothing companies are responsible because they are doing false advertisements by saying to give old clothes and we will recycle them. You're analogy with the cake is pretty dumb, because if gluten doesn't suit your body then why eat the cake in the first place.
I remember being in my 20s with so much clothes. I'm a minimalist but still struggle to part with some clothes I never wear! I've had a revelation since that time in my life. I have one body to clothe, why do I need all these clothes? I'm no brilliant scientist or entrepreneur, but I'm glad I can do my small part by overconsuming.
Unfortunately most of my cloths are out of date.But I usually wear them until there worn-out.I only buy when needed (consumption) is not needed just my opinion.
300 years ago you had 3 outfits if you were blessed . Now we go through that in a day. Same as paper. Egyptians made paper out of papyrus and it was a long process so it was valued. Now it’s just trash…. Sad. I’m glad I’m 66 honestly. Humans are DESTROYING our planet. No one to blame but ourselves. No one….
Given this is mostly clothing and very little other junk, it looks like people had donated the items to " charity " only to have them dumped here. The issue is, where is the breakdown in the system of donation to 2nd hand buyer?
“About 6 billion pairs of jeans are made a year" This is only denim jeans!! How many jeans do you need or buy each year? There's just too much production of everything. All this manufacturing adds to climate change.
I work in a thrift store and if an item has a stain however small or a missing button or tiny hole it is not used by us,some of it is sent away but some actually ends up in the garbage
Didn't know that Chile was receiving so much cast off clothing. I'm guessing the bulk of it goes to West Africa where it. Most of the items that aren't usable are burnt in giant heaps (note that polyester is a plastic) or are clogging their beaches and water drainage systems.
Sure... It is the consumer choice. Just put it in a different bin. When the real person to blame is the fact the consumer doesn't have better options to buy. Like forced to buy a car when the city isn't designed to be walkable
The problem is to many clothes are produced with this fast fashion stuff. They could produce way less but the issue is that is fast fashion. It is made fast and constantly trying to keep up with the fads. The problem is this is what happens It is dumped. That is why honestly thrift shopping is the best. You are recycling things. Or if you prefer to shop new shop some place where you know the clothes will last longer. Our world just produces way to much product. More than everyone can wear. It is wasteful.
This really sends the wrong message. Yes, the manufacturers are to blame. Most of time on order to sell clothes so cheap they really on child trafficking and slavery. Also, buy second hand clothes! You don't have to buy everything new. There are so many great pieces in second hand stores! And you don't have to throw away everything the minute it breaks. There are many ways to fix and repurpose clothes.
I'm still wearing clothes I bought over a decade ago. Once in a long while I come to a decision to purchase a new pair of anything to replace the previous article that was disintegrating.
It's not enough for a few individuals to stop buying so many clothes or to use thrift shops. Companies that sell fast fashion are driven by profits to have completely new and cheap items that are completely swapped out every few weeks. So much brand new clothing goes straight to a landfill. Everyone who consumes in excess is contributing to the problem. I'm not sure how else to tackle this issue.
Can we make patched clothing fashionable again? Also, most of the fabrics are mixed wth artificial fibers making old cloth useless, old cotton clothes can be made into paper and other products. How can we use these materials as a resource for other things?
Despicable - our long-massive glut of absolutely everything. We never needed all of this - a ridiculous multitude of choices. Extraction of resources, toxic production processes, exploitation of labor...we have been shameful.
Each regional Goodwill is independent. Goodwill cannot use all of the clothing that is donated and most must be discarded or sent to other organizations.
Need to drastically reduce the amount of fake clothes being produced and go back to basics: cotton, linen.. whoever is biodegradable.. when a cotton shirt is ratty it can be used as a bandana, a handkerchief, a cleaning rag, an oil lamp wick, in a hooked rug, or as fuel in a fire. Natural clothes feel better anyway.
This sinfully sad. Over the years I have only placed one garment in the trash. It was a synthetic leather pair of pants. They totally came apart and were irreparable. Will never purchase such a wasteful items aver again. Repurposing is the answer.
It shows how shallow and cheap people can be. "gotta have cheap stuff". Most clothes are made in 3rd world countries by 10 year old slaves making a dollar a week.
Hmm I am a hoarder of clothes. I haven’t donated any items and now I know that doesn’t really help because orgs like Goodwill operate like a business when it comes to inventory turnover and if no one buys it by a certain time it goes straight to the landfill.
And then these resellers buy from them and they just throw away what doesn't sell too. I say hoard away, but do NOT continually buy new to add to it. Just use up what you have and know you are helping everyone.
@@boycott2720 trying to do that. The pandemic made it a lot easier when I was working from home everyday. I could wear faded shirts and shorts that were over 10 years old and no one cared because no one could see me working in them lol.
My family knows that I am a huge advocate for buying second hand to help save the environment and to save money. It's a win-win situation when you thrift shop shop yard. Sales garage sales estate sales pawnshops. You can find some Really cool stuff. At places like that. And clothing is one of them. I find brand new items with the original tags on them at thrift stores all the time. In half of what my kids are getting for Christmas is from thrift stores. Actually it's probably more than half and they don't care, but if you wanna raise your kids to destroy the environment and be materialistic. Well, I guess that's you but me. I wanna teach my kids. The value of our Earth, our lives and money. Some of you really need to take a long, long look in the mirror and figure out who you really are. Are you on them or one of us?
@@Jenvlogs404 Clothes are easy though. Just seal them in a bag. When you get home put them on high heat in the dryer for 30 minutes, and no more bed bugs. You don't have to wet them either. Just fry the little buggers.
Also buddy, regardless of clothes, how much of a tool are you really you don’t blink twice about? This is all an aspect of character, no? So let’s all work on everything than just fast fashion if we’re taking long looks at ourselves. Yep
We need to start holding the garment designers and pattern-makers accountable for _ill-fitting_ clothes that look good in ads or even on hangers but lack the ability to move _with_ our bodies. I'm guessing that alotta the clothes that end up in landfills are of this nature. I blame computer aided design (CAD) and cutting corners on the armscyes and where the crotch meets to be able to cut more garments per yardage.
@@blackflyingfox3365 It doesn't solve the lack of ability to lift your arms without the waist lifting....baggier shirts are even more prone to do this if the _cut_ is bad..... not to mention that the baggy clothes are bulky and reduce mobility due to _weight._ I have mastered drafting patterns for garments with the least amount of bulk with just enough ease for full range movement. The industry is nearly impossible to enter as there are many gatekeepers assuring that poor cuts will continue to dominate the market to assure that people won't actually want to _wear_ those clothes repeatedly.
Kind of ironic that the girl is wearing exactly what they are saying is the problem. Especially the fast fashion "purposely torn", mass produced pants. Jeez.
Smells fishy. They should dig deeper into who shipped them to Chile. There's no reason why these clothes that appear to be usable aren't donated to countries that could make use of second hand clothing.
Why you just reaching out to H&M they not the only company there looks like a collective of clothes from different companies Wow just wow! Dont just blame H& M!
…I am a Christian… and hate the commercial ‘Christmas’ ‘celebrations… people over-spend on unnecessary cheap tat from places like China… often when families can’t even afford to do so… Please consider that a small, token gift, or something like a hand-made memento is enough to show your love and appreciation to those around you. And consider too the reason for the season. Please save yourselves from a mountain of debt… and piles of plastic rubbish (cheap clothing and toys) when the novelty has worn off…and the cheap tat falls apart and ends up filling more landfills!!
Subsidise the GOODWILL, so that THE PRICES ARE NOT SO HIGH. Our local Oregon Goodwill is very expensive. The Goodwill As- Is is the last stop for used items before things become trash, or have to be shipped out. But even the As- Is is very expencive. The shuttling of merchandise costs money. Every item is handled several times by employees that are paid by the hour. And disposal costs are huge ! If the Goodwill would reduce sales prices, they would save a tremendouse amount of money. Subsidising thrift stores would be more cost effective, and environmentally effective.
The solution to dumping is for online purchases to add shipping and custom costs to the merchandise. To avoid tax evasion custom and shipping costs must be paid separately before an order is placed. As for used items children can be taught from an early age (around the same time that they are taught to wash their hands regularly) to place unneeded items in a designated bin in the yard or building. In that way, charity organisations can pick them up, wash them and give to the poor. Alternatively, they can still be dumped at St Vincent de Paul, The Salvation Army and the Red Cross. One person's trash, is another person's modesty❤✌️
Don't blame fast fashion.. it wasn't dumped because no one bought them 2nd hand.. Chances are they were donated then tossed out by whatever company it ended up with the items..
It must be the clothing manufacturers that are throwing their overproduced clothes out. But, that's why there are stores like Ross, Marshalls and TJ Maxx, for over produced or old stock that can't be sent to the bigger stores. But, you don't see H&M clothes in any of those stores. I have always given my old, ill fitting, unwanted clothes to thrift stores. I would never throw them out. Plus, there are so many homeless and poor people out there that can't afford new clothes, all unwanted clothes should be given away. There is no reason in this day and age for clothes to wind up in a 'land fill' in Chile. It is clear Stupidity.
Thrift stores throw away a lot of stuff they get donated. It ends up in a landfill, anyway. People just need to buy less, and not fall victim to the latest trends
I think if you put a bunch of seeds all over the place on the fabric it would probably grow. Grass seed wild Flowers probably even vegetable seeds pumkin seeds stuff like that. Try a few spots first and if it works maybe that section of desert becomes beautiful. You might have to add irrigation but thats kind of simple
I disagree with the comment at the end. A lot of these vastly made clothing are made with cheap synthetic material that is also bad for the environment.
Most of the clothes are in horrible condition used clothes from Europe and us. U should watch the video on Ghanas clothes landfill most of the good donated clothes go to thift shops in US and the unusable get sent to Chile, ghana and Indonesia
I spend a sh*t load of money on well made high quality which lasts for years (and also acts as an incentive to stay fit). Nothing is tossed. I have a Kilgour, French & Stanbury silk and cashmere scarf that I purchased new in the 1980's from Barney's New York. KFS and Barney's are long gone, but I'm still wearing the scarf. My faded 10 year old $300 Japan made jeans are patched which only adds more charm 🙂
Appalling! . . Buy clothing that is biodegradable, and avoid synthetic fabrics if posible this is our world let’s be good stewards for the next generation. We each can do our part. ❤🌎
I'm wearing my daughter's old clothes, my neighbor's old clothes, and my husband's old clothes. I buy one or two new items in a year. My old clothes become rags for cleaning, art projects, or blankets. Tina, Al's wife
Who's responsible for the clothing dump? I think we can blame manufacturers for overproduction & waste. Ordinary consumers aren't dumping clothing in free trade zones. Take them to task. Make them change their manufacturing practices. This report is like a toothless bite.
So they are willing to accept the clothes, but there is a out of fashion group known as Fast Fashion that can’t be re-sold? There are groups all over the world that would love to have these fabrics for their projects. They need to address the mountain of tires that are polluting her pristine desert too. Another story on the assault of the environment to which no change will be seen!
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Thank you to Angela for caring, for taking a stand, and teacher her daughter the right thing.
Think about ways to recycle clothing. There are PLENTY of gently used items out there. There is a local store that people donate/buy from, that is sponsored by a local Cancer care center to raise funds.
Be thoughtful, and creative.
I had a friend who told me they avoid watching the news because she doesnt want to feel sad. But I feel it's important that we even take the time to hear people's stories and see what's going on in the world.
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@Anonymous.24. you want a cookie for replying? What's the point in your remarks
This kind of thing will always remind me of the show Daria. My favorite line “That's why they want to talk to you. When they say, "You're always unhappy, Daria," what they mean is, "You think Daria. I can tell because you don't smile. Now this guy died and it makes me think and that hurts my little head and makes me stop smiling. So, tell me how you cope with thinking all the time, Daria, until I can get back to my normal vegetable state." Most people can’t handle the truth
We need to start caring and making conscious choices. Mostly all of my clothing is from second hand stores or from friends. We dont need more stuff. We need more love, more peace and more community!
agreed :)
I wear m stuff for decades. When it get worn, I use it to do creative patchwork on other items. I reuse as much as I can, even making toys for my dog before it eventually has to be thrown away.
I live in the CA desert in the winter where thrifting is huge. I find most of my things from these places and vintage stores. I don’t even know where to buy new clothes
But your cell phone has zero plastic components and creates no toxic waste during production? Western hypocrite
Agreed! We shop second hand as much as possible. Also, I think it would be helpful if the people on the news and with celebrity status didn't wear a different outfit every time they're on TV. It would do a lot to spread the word by seeing high visible people reducing and re-using clothing, wearing less make up.
"You can't really blame the manufacturers. If you just recycled more..." Excuse me? These are the exact tactics companies have been using for decades to shift responsibility to the consumer. Where do you think these random mounds of discarded clothes came from? Either by unsold fashions the company got rid of or the influx of donated clothes dropped off at thrift stores. The issue already exists by the time it reaches consumers - telling consumers if they just spent a little less money on clothing and a little more time recycling is antithetical to the larger issue. Clothes are made cheaply today. Pretty much all (affordable) fashion is fast fashion, that means people's clothing is wearing faster, warping faster, tearing faster, they don't last. Trend cycles have become increasingly fast as a result of social media. This is the result of culture curated into overconsumption. Blaming consumers for company overproduction and free use of plastics that won't biodegrade for items that have a short use cycle is exactly what allows companies to continue their behavior. America doesn't even have a nationalized comprehensible recycling system, how can you possibly say "just recycle more" and expect the problem to go away?
But companies wouldn't over produce if we didn't buy it. Consumers demand cheaper clothing so it's a race to the bottom.
Yup, plus the marketing from manufacturers brainwashes people to believe they need new clothing each season. The problem 100 percent starts with corporate greed, but individual people need to change their behavior too.
Unfortunately, we have the same attitude towards throwing something in the trash as placing something for recycling: it’s out of sight, so it’s out of mind. We hope that what we recycle will actually be recycled, but we often don’t know the process. Sometimes, things sent for recycling end up in landfills anyway.
Unfortunately we are the most wasteful and hog happy nation in the world we need to throw stuff out it makes us feel fat and good
Exactly and the ppl thats suppose to ship an recycle..its cheaper to dump than pay for recycling
Part of the problem is by the time the recycling plant gets the items most of it is unusable. It gets mixed with unrecyclable stuff, gets ruined, or items with the recycling symbol are not actually recyclable. We were lied to about how practical recycling was in reality. But probably part of the problem was environmentalists had rose-colored glasses on. Thinking their push to recycle would somehow just make it all magically happen, and it did, but it couldn't go nearly as far as people thought and then promised. When it didn't happen, it was a case of "just pretend goals were met".
"Recycling" is mostly just theater. Most goes to landfills or the oceans.
I honestly can't remember the last time I threw fabric or clothing away, usually make quilts, pillows, cat beds, critter hammocks, rag rugs, or basket wraps.
Yeah, i don't understand who's throwing these clothes away. If i have something that's not good quality i hold onto it. If it's good quality i donate it in hopes they don't throw it out. Maybe it's from people who are suddenly becoming homeless and have too much to deal with. Idk
@@terenarosa4790ppl who are ignorant like myself, until seeing this. My bad but also many do it who don’t know their right hand from their left. You know this. The world’s not small, narrow, or pure
How do you use synthetic material to make quilts, rugs etc. I don't consider that material as fabric.
@@terenarosa4790 thrift stores are receive a lot of donations but if they’re not bought, they eventually end up in a landfill (they need to make room for the new clothes they receive). This is why it’s better to shop at thrift stores before shopping at major retail stores.
Thanks for bringing awareness to a news channel as big as CBS. I will say finding recycling facilities and bins are strangely difficult. The avg American consumer has a hard time finding the proper bin and even then it ends up in the trash or in landfills. Until recycling or a better system becomes easier for the avg person, people won't do it. Something needs to be done.
those so call recycling bins are a lie as well, lot of those clothes just thrown out to landfills as well.
No there not, I have 3 large tots..one for Trash One for Anything compostable..paper, clothing Cotton etc & recyclable materals.
This has less value as a reply to you and more as a statement from me, as I'm not being very courteous, but this opinion is negligent. Blaming ease of recycling on the reason fills like this exist is just a lazy form of self-preservation. These fills do NOT exist because recycling is hard, or inaccessable, it is strictly because of the overconsumption of clothing. Textile recycling is hard in quantity beyond landfills or combustion plants, and even worse with cheaper textiles that rely on synthetic materials that the majority of these dumped clothes are made of. We should always pursue better, more impactful forms of industrial recycling, of course, but this issue isn't going to be solved by that. As the idiom goes; do more good, not less bad. People need to purchase less clothes, and make more of an effort to upcycle and repurpose them before tossing them to an industrial complex to deal with.
Great. I'm glad you do your part. But I still stand by what I said. Many people don't have access to a simple recycling bin.
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Fair, but I didn't say recycling was the sole purpose for the issue highlighted here. Numerous factors are at play here, but I highlighted recycling. Though you do bring up valid points. I'm just saying that recycling does not always do what it's supposed to-- When people do think they are recycling, majority of the time, it does not end up recycled and the articles end up in places like the one shown in this video. @@goodvibes4891
I am positive there are impoverished people everywhere who could use this clothing. I never, ever throw clothing away unless it’s filthy and no one should wear it and then I try to use it for rags. I always donate them. This is another sigh of human selfishness. It’s a crime on many levels that should be stopped.
That is part of the system problem. People who donate their clothes, don’t realize that only a certain percentage are sold or given to being used again. The rest are sent to landfills. We need a better recycling system and need to consume less. The companies need to produce less too.
@@AbbyyenaYour donation can also end up in landfills. Unless your clothes are high end fashion, or new, they will be sold as bulk and the people who buy bulk are the ones who are dumping what they cant sell on .
@@Abbyyena Companies producing less means less profit for shareholders. It also means fewer paid jobs for people in low-income countries. You're talking about an entire economic system change. That hasn't happened since the Russian revolution of 1917.
I rarely shop for clothing nowadays. Anything I need is already in my closet. Recently been pulling old, slightly used clothes, shoes, other stuff and donating them to thrift stores. I'm striving towards a minimalist life.
Wish people would wear clothes out and be proud of wearing30 yr old sweaters with 10 yr old jeans. This is something you can't recycle your way out of. A complete value shift is called for.
I’m on vacation visiting family in the UK and this town I’m in I’ve only found 1 store and all the other stores are charity shops where everyone shops mostly.
Clothing companies should be required to make items out of materials like cotton or hemp.
Considering 80% of clothes Used to be made of cotton, linen or wool. Now 80% of cothes are made from rayon, polyester, nylon, acrylic and/or spandex. It is So Hard to find anything that is 100% cotton, linen or wool these days.
If they make it 100 percent cotton it should be required they are preshrunk. It’s a waste to have to throw out a new shirt that shrinks three sizes.
And not in places that he mentioned
Natural fibers instead of plastic. We do need some items of synthetics, ie. Rain gear, waterproof items. Most current clothing is cheap plastic crap of very poor construction and quality. I refuse to buy it
@@DustyKnowledge Walmart doesn't make clothing. They sell it
Plastic can be recycled but it's cheaper to just make another. What if all those clothes were chopped up and used as housing insulation?
There is a company that recycles jeans into insulation.
Australia has a company that has designed a machine that uses the fabric and glass bottles to make tiles that can be used in home construction.
We need to stop buying unnecessary things!
Clothes shopping should be done intentionally. I haven't gotten new clothes in about 2 years... I can't believe some people empty out their closets to start new every change of season.
I find clothes and shoes at thrift stores that still have tags on them. Never worn.
In many cities in CA, there are Buy Nothing Groups that are comprised of neighbors in the close-by area. The members offer used or new stuffs, food, or clothes that are no longer needed. I have got a lot of clothes, shoes, household things, bedsheets, & etc from the group & love the group. I rarely have to spend money on shopping for clothes or household stuffs.
I think that's insane too. I still own the same clothes I bought 10 years ago. I only buy things I love and I buy classic stuff that doesn't go out of style.
@@ucsbgirlie18 Yep, me too. I have no heat right now, so I did buy a couple of merino wool sweaters to layer with clothes I already have, but I consider that a need. Other than things like that, I haven't bought close in at least 15 years. People used to harass me at work because I have perfectly good, but outdated clothes. I told them that about the second time the same fashion comes around, you realize they are just forcing you to spend your money. If you want to waste money that's fine. I have better things to do with mine. Like saving to eventually get my heat fixed.
That’s just being wasteful.
I used fast fashion to replenish my closet and donated all clothes I grew out of to a domestic violence shelter, but I’ll wear my clothes until they wear out and have adopted a minimalist mindset recently for better mental health
You would be surprised just how much plastic is in the clothes
It has nothing to do with fast fashion. Its all to do with synthetic clothing. We need to wear cotton. Cotton can be composted
@jinjasupaisu
Cotton will eventually rot away.
Synthetics take much longer, and pollute the soil.
It has to do with BOTH overconsumption AND synthetics.
Here's the problem with that: Cotton as a crop consumes a huge amount of water, depletes the soil dreadfully, and requires a LOT of herbicide and insecticide. Processing cotton into fabric is also an ecological disaster. It's NOT "all to do with synthetic clothing": It's all to do with people buying too much stuff, not taking care of it, getting bored with it, and tossing it out to make room for the NEXT batch of dump-fodder.
I save my old textiles and fabrics and use them for fill and stuffing for pillows, floor pillows, ornaments, and plushies. You need a lot more than you think to fill up those stuff. I put socks, towels, fabric scraps. I cut them all up and use them.
Walk into any store and you'll see lots of small and medium sizes on sale. Same in any thrift store. Average size is a 16 yet stores buy thousands of smalls and mediums, but very few larger sizes that people actually wear. Larger sizes sell out 1st and rarely found in thrift stores or on clearance sale. And they keep over producing small sizes.
Absolutely, I have worn a 2X for a long time, I purchase 2X now and they are too small. I have not gained weight. Our clothing is being made in China and they are being made smaller. You are correct about there being too many small and medium. I needed a new coat, looked online and they were all labeled that they run small.
That’s a damn lie 😂. Larger sizes do NOT sell first. I’m a small and my size is always the first to sell out. Obesity isn’t the norm.
@@Dainty213 what a quality problem to have Friend.
@@Dainty213I’m not obese, but I wear large sizes (10 or 12 depending on the brand). And at 5’6”, even if I could fit into a small or medium item of clothing, it would be too short. So (😨shocker) there are people who are not obese, but who are also not small or medium. Sheesh.
This is just shameful for H&M and other clothing company on how they advertise to dumb old clothes in their stores for recycling and they are ending up in the landfill.
@@windycitykitty
Clothing companies are responsible because they are doing false advertisements by saying to give old clothes and we will recycle them.
You're analogy with the cake is pretty dumb, because if gluten doesn't suit your body then why eat the cake in the first place.
@@ynmlali1020 OK, you win.
I remember being in my 20s with so much clothes. I'm a minimalist but still struggle to part with some clothes I never wear! I've had a revelation since that time in my life. I have one body to clothe, why do I need all these clothes? I'm no brilliant scientist or entrepreneur, but I'm glad I can do my small part by overconsuming.
Unfortunately most of my cloths are out of date.But I usually wear them until there worn-out.I only buy when needed (consumption) is not needed just my opinion.
One of the main reasons I don't but needless trendy clothing. Lasting timeless items only. This was hard to see 😢
h&m clothes are being burning in sweden for power plants, why not send them there
300 years ago you had 3 outfits if you were blessed . Now we go through that in a day. Same as paper. Egyptians made paper out of papyrus and it was a long process so it was valued. Now it’s just trash…. Sad. I’m glad I’m 66 honestly. Humans are DESTROYING our planet. No one to blame but ourselves. No one….
Given this is mostly clothing and very little other junk, it looks like people had donated the items to " charity " only to have them dumped here. The issue is, where is the breakdown in the system of donation to 2nd hand buyer?
“About 6 billion pairs of jeans are made a year" This is only denim jeans!! How many jeans do you need or buy each year? There's just too much production of everything. All this manufacturing adds to climate change.
Subsidies thrift stores.
So that prices remain low.
I work in a thrift store and if an item has a stain however small or a missing button or tiny hole it is not used by us,some of it is sent away but some actually ends up in the garbage
Didn't know that Chile was receiving so much cast off clothing. I'm guessing the bulk of it goes to West Africa where it. Most of the items that aren't usable are burnt in giant heaps (note that polyester is a plastic) or are clogging their beaches and water drainage systems.
Sure... It is the consumer choice. Just put it in a different bin.
When the real person to blame is the fact the consumer doesn't have better options to buy.
Like forced to buy a car when the city isn't designed to be walkable
The result of "Shop till you drop" menality
Please donate clothes. Don't throw them in trash.
All of these clothes were donated.
You don't get it do you? These ARE donated clothes.
It's people buying endless clothing to begin with that is the problem.
The problem is to many clothes are produced with this fast fashion stuff. They could produce way less but the issue is that is fast fashion. It is made fast and constantly trying to keep up with the fads. The problem is this is what happens It is dumped. That is why honestly thrift shopping is the best. You are recycling things. Or if you prefer to shop new shop some place where you know the clothes will last longer. Our world just produces way to much product. More than everyone can wear. It is wasteful.
Everyone thinks that they can just donate clothing and the problem is solved. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It doesnt matter what bin you put it in. All trash ends up in the same pile. Sad!
This really sends the wrong message. Yes, the manufacturers are to blame. Most of time on order to sell clothes so cheap they really on child trafficking and slavery. Also, buy second hand clothes! You don't have to buy everything new. There are so many great pieces in second hand stores! And you don't have to throw away everything the minute it breaks. There are many ways to fix and repurpose clothes.
It’s not about recycling, as the reporter was saying is about the overconsumption, stop buying new!
I'm still wearing clothes I bought over a decade ago. Once in a long while I come to a decision to purchase a new pair of anything to replace the previous article that was disintegrating.
It's not enough for a few individuals to stop buying so many clothes or to use thrift shops. Companies that sell fast fashion are driven by profits to have completely new and cheap items that are completely swapped out every few weeks. So much brand new clothing goes straight to a landfill. Everyone who consumes in excess is contributing to the problem. I'm not sure how else to tackle this issue.
Can we make patched clothing fashionable again? Also, most of the fabrics are mixed wth artificial fibers making old cloth useless, old cotton clothes can be made into paper and other products. How can we use these materials as a resource for other things?
Stop buying crap.
Everyone needs to stop buying new clothes, we have enough already made to reuse for decades…
Despicable - our long-massive glut of absolutely everything. We never needed all of this - a ridiculous multitude of choices. Extraction of resources, toxic production processes, exploitation of labor...we have been shameful.
Stay classy, humanity.
The thrift stores have more donations than they can sell. It's non-stop cars donating 10-20 bags of clothing and accessories.
Steve Preston makes $710k a year as the CEO of Goodwill Industries. What do you think he does with the donated clothes he doesn’t sell?…
Each regional Goodwill is independent. Goodwill cannot use all of the clothing that is donated and most must be discarded or sent to other organizations.
So where do all the lousy appliances of today end up???
I rarely buy clothing, so this is not my problem.
1:51 She definitely touched the dirty clothes and wiped her tears with the same hand
Need to drastically reduce the amount of fake clothes being produced and go back to basics: cotton, linen.. whoever is biodegradable.. when a cotton shirt is ratty it can be used as a bandana, a handkerchief, a cleaning rag, an oil lamp wick, in a hooked rug, or as fuel in a fire. Natural clothes feel better anyway.
This sinfully sad. Over the years I have only placed one garment in the trash. It was a synthetic leather pair of pants. They totally came apart and were irreparable. Will never purchase such a wasteful items aver again. Repurposing is the answer.
It shows how shallow and cheap people can be. "gotta have cheap stuff". Most clothes are made in 3rd world countries by 10 year old slaves making a dollar a week.
Hmm I am a hoarder of clothes. I haven’t donated any items and now I know that doesn’t really help because orgs like Goodwill operate like a business when it comes to inventory turnover and if no one buys it by a certain time it goes straight to the landfill.
And then these resellers buy from them and they just throw away what doesn't sell too. I say hoard away, but do NOT continually buy new to add to it. Just use up what you have and know you are helping everyone.
@@boycott2720 trying to do that. The pandemic made it a lot easier when I was working from home everyday. I could wear faded shirts and shorts that were over 10 years old and no one cared because no one could see me working in them lol.
This is one example of where your donations go.
Why aren't the ships cited and fined for illegal dumping ??
My family knows that I am a huge advocate for buying second hand to help save the environment and to save money. It's a win-win situation when you thrift shop shop yard. Sales garage sales estate sales pawnshops. You can find some Really cool stuff. At places like that.
And clothing is one of them. I find brand new items with the original tags on them at thrift stores all the time. In half of what my kids are getting for Christmas is from thrift stores. Actually it's probably more than half and they don't care, but if you wanna raise your kids to destroy the environment and be materialistic. Well, I guess that's you but me. I wanna teach my kids. The value of our Earth, our lives and money.
Some of you really need to take a long, long look in the mirror and figure out who you really are. Are you on them or one of us?
Yeah, except people now are going to second hand store not for their own use, but to sell at a markup online. That should be illegal.
Bed bugs in used clothes
@@Jenvlogs404 Clothes are easy though. Just seal them in a bag. When you get home put them on high heat in the dryer for 30 minutes, and no more bed bugs. You don't have to wet them either. Just fry the little buggers.
I’m one of them but want to change. Your values was instilled though or learnt. Not everyone cares or is taught. But sure, your right
Also buddy, regardless of clothes, how much of a tool are you really you don’t blink twice about? This is all an aspect of character, no? So let’s all work on everything than just fast fashion if we’re taking long looks at ourselves. Yep
We need to start holding the garment designers and pattern-makers accountable for _ill-fitting_ clothes that look good in ads or even on hangers but lack the ability to move _with_ our bodies.
I'm guessing that alotta the clothes that end up in landfills are of this nature.
I blame computer aided design (CAD) and cutting corners on the armscyes and where the crotch meets to be able to cut more garments per yardage.
That's why I buy all my clothes baggy.
@@blackflyingfox3365 It doesn't solve the lack of ability to lift your arms without the waist lifting....baggier shirts are even more prone to do this if the _cut_ is bad..... not to mention that the baggy clothes are bulky and reduce mobility due to _weight._
I have mastered drafting patterns for garments with the least amount of bulk with just enough ease for full range movement.
The industry is nearly impossible to enter as there are many gatekeepers assuring that poor cuts will continue to dominate the market to assure that people won't actually want to _wear_ those clothes repeatedly.
Kind of ironic that the girl is wearing exactly what they are saying is the problem. Especially the fast fashion "purposely torn", mass produced pants. Jeez.
Most likely she recycled those jeans _from_ that pile.
Smells fishy. They should dig deeper into who shipped them to Chile. There's no reason why these clothes that appear to be usable aren't donated to countries that could make use of second hand clothing.
Important issue for Americans to learn about.
No more polyester for us.
Since most clothing is now made from petroleum is there a way to turn it into oil again ?
That’s an idea
I think there is but it's not economical yet.
Why you just reaching out to H&M they not the only company there looks like a collective of clothes from different companies Wow just wow! Dont just blame H& M!
I wear clothes until they are threadbare. Anything serviceable I toss, goes into a charity bin.
Thank you. Please keep doing report like this. And also maybe do some reports about online resale platforms and how they make a difference.
They end up on the beaches in Ghana as well. The clothing has ruined the beaches there.
Take batter care of your clothes
1:50 She's going to give herself conjunctivitis touching her eye in that place.
Pretty sure that's where just about EVERYTHING ends up after being thrown away.
…I am a Christian… and hate the commercial ‘Christmas’ ‘celebrations… people over-spend on unnecessary cheap tat from places like China… often when families can’t even afford to do so…
Please consider that a small, token gift, or something like a hand-made memento is enough to show your love and appreciation to those around you. And consider too the reason for the season. Please save yourselves from a mountain of debt… and piles of plastic rubbish (cheap clothing and toys) when the novelty has worn off…and the cheap tat falls apart and ends up filling more landfills!!
Don't expect the Fast Fashionistas to give 2 shitz.
It’s kind of ironic that she is wearing pre-ripped pants which will have to be disposed of much faster than regular pants with no holes
Fast fashion is cancer
Subsidise the GOODWILL, so that THE PRICES ARE NOT SO HIGH.
Our local Oregon Goodwill is very expensive. The Goodwill As- Is is the last stop for used items before things become trash, or have to be shipped out. But even the As- Is is very expencive.
The shuttling of merchandise costs money.
Every item is handled several times by employees that are paid by the hour.
And disposal costs are huge !
If the Goodwill would reduce sales prices, they would save a tremendouse amount of money.
Subsidising thrift stores would be more cost effective, and environmentally effective.
Subsidize?? No. What would be the point?
The solution to dumping is for online purchases to add shipping and custom costs to the merchandise. To avoid tax evasion custom and shipping costs must be paid separately before an order is placed.
As for used items children can be taught from an early age (around the same time that they are taught to wash their hands regularly) to place unneeded items in a designated bin in the yard or building. In that way, charity organisations can pick them up, wash them and give to the poor.
Alternatively, they can still be dumped at St Vincent de Paul, The Salvation Army and the Red Cross. One person's trash, is another person's modesty❤✌️
Don't blame fast fashion.. it wasn't dumped because no one bought them 2nd hand.. Chances are they were donated then tossed out by whatever company it ended up with the items..
There are many places to blame, including fast fashion.
It must be the clothing manufacturers that are throwing their overproduced clothes out. But, that's why there are stores like Ross, Marshalls and TJ Maxx, for over produced or old stock that can't be sent to the bigger stores. But, you don't see H&M clothes in any of those stores. I have always given my old, ill fitting, unwanted clothes to thrift stores. I would never throw them out. Plus, there are so many homeless and poor people out there that can't afford new clothes, all unwanted clothes should be given away. There is no reason in this day and age for clothes to wind up in a 'land fill' in Chile. It is clear Stupidity.
Thrift stores throw away a lot of stuff they get donated. It ends up in a landfill, anyway. People just need to buy less, and not fall victim to the latest trends
A lot of theses are from goodwill follow the money
I think if you put a bunch of seeds all over the place on the fabric it would probably grow. Grass seed wild Flowers probably even vegetable seeds pumkin seeds stuff like that. Try a few spots first and if it works maybe that section of desert becomes beautiful. You might have to add irrigation but thats kind of simple
sad😢😢😢
Active volcano lava will dissolve most items 😅
I disagree with the comment at the end. A lot of these vastly made clothing are made with cheap synthetic material that is also bad for the environment.
Couldntthe clothing be used as a fuel source for industy , by burning it ?
What's a CBS story without somebody crying?
The Devil Wears Prada
The government should step in and stop that illegal dumping!….period!
We used to throw our clothes away in the garbage can but we started donating it to the thrift store! That's hella clothes damn!
Most of that is from the thrift stores. What they don’t sale they ship.
Can they not be burned
Or better yet free clothing to those in real need I mean like actually given to them FREE
Most of the clothes are in horrible condition used clothes from Europe and us. U should watch the video on Ghanas clothes landfill most of the good donated clothes go to thift shops in US and the unusable get sent to Chile, ghana and Indonesia
Burning synthetic fabrics, which are largely made from Petroleum is very harmful for the environment.
No! They don't need more air pollution and we don't need more global warming gasses.
Amazon's money back guaranteed is to blame as well 🎉
I spend a sh*t load of money on well made high quality which lasts for years (and also acts as an incentive to stay fit). Nothing is tossed. I have a Kilgour, French & Stanbury silk and cashmere scarf that I purchased new in the 1980's from Barney's New York. KFS and Barney's are long gone, but I'm still wearing the scarf. My faded 10 year old $300 Japan made jeans are patched which only adds more charm 🙂
Appalling! . . Buy clothing that is biodegradable, and avoid synthetic fabrics if posible this is our world let’s be good stewards for the next generation.
We each can do our part. ❤🌎
That sucks
I need to "investigate" that place...for studies.
I'm wearing my daughter's old clothes, my neighbor's old clothes, and my husband's old clothes. I buy one or two new items in a year. My old clothes become
rags for cleaning, art projects, or blankets. Tina, Al's wife
This is shocking. Also, shocking that they are not wearing gloves....they need to be careful when digging around in that nasty pile.
Rich people being wasteful again.
Who's responsible for the clothing dump? I think we can blame manufacturers for overproduction & waste. Ordinary consumers aren't dumping clothing in free trade zones. Take them to task. Make them change their manufacturing practices. This report is like a toothless bite.
We can definitely blame the manufacturers who make clothes that are extremely flimsy and low quality.
So they are willing to accept the clothes, but there is a out of fashion group known as Fast Fashion that can’t be re-sold? There are groups all over the world that would love to have these fabrics for their projects. They need to address the mountain of tires that are polluting her pristine desert too. Another story on the assault of the environment to which no change will be seen!
Donate your unwanted clothes to goodwill
It's sad they should have some kind of washing machine where house for the clothes and sending them to other countries for people that need them