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Can you pass on used underwear
Short answer: As a rule, no. Most charity shops do not accept used underwear for hygiene reasons. Unworn underwear wi...
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What happens to old clothes
Short answer: It is sorted by hand and goes to resale, to recycling or to incineration. Clean and intact clothing goe...
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Figures on textile waste
Short answer: The figures vary greatly between countries and reports, and they are hard to compare. What you can meas...
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Reuse in practice
Short answer: It is about the garment being used by someone else rather than being torn into fibres. That is why it m...
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How less clothing ends up in the bin
Short answer: Buy fewer and better garments, repair the small faults, and hand in the rest for collection instead of ...
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What happens to clothes you hand in
Short answer: Clothing is sorted along three routes: resale, recycling into new materials, and incineration. Your sor...
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Clothes with memories in them
Short answer: Keep a few pieces and keep them visible. Twenty garments in a box are not a memory, only a box you neve...
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Clothes you are waiting to fit into again
Short answer: Set a deadline. If the clothes do not fit within a year and you have no concrete plan, keeping them doe...
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Keeping or throwing out
Short answer: Keep what you have worn within a year or have a concrete plan for. Everything else is a decision you ar...
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What people most often regret throwing out
Short answer: What people most often regret giving away is basic garments in a good fit and garments that are no long...
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A clear out that actually lasts
Short answer: Take everything out of the wardrobe, lay it on the bed, and put back only what you have worn in the pas...
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The rule of one out for every one in
Short answer: For every garment you buy, another one moves on. The rule keeps the wardrobe the same size without a ye...
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