The Global Afterlife Of Your Donated Clothes : Parallels : NPR: "It's a scene played out across the U.S.: people donating their old clothes, whether through collection bins or through large charities, to help others.
Melissa Vanouse donates clothes a couple of times a year.
"I think it all pretty much stays local — that's kind of the idea," she says.
But it doesn't. Martha's Table, like other charities, only has so much room and can only keep clothes for so long. At some point, charities call in a textile recycling company."
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