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[Yoder]

This documentary is disturbing. People are worried about climate change but this is an environmental problem of epic proportions. I highly encourage everyone to watch this and we all need to really think, do we need to buy more stuff.

 

[ddavis_1313]

This documentary is disturbing. People are worried about climate change but this is an environmental problem of epic proportions. I highly encourage everyone to watch this and we all need to really think, do we need to buy more stuff.

Companies don’t spend billions on marketing strategies and inferior products that don’t last if it wasn’t profitable….

Kinda sad actually to think of the number of people who are convinced and sold that many of there “needs” are truly “wants”.


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[BadDogPSD]

I've been involved in a few discussions recently that started with Trumps proposed tariffs. The leaders of the USA made a conscious decision to move manufacturing off-shore to exploit the much lower labor costs. Part of that was the creation of consumerism and "disposable " consumer goods. It's an incredible waste of resources and a huge source of pollution.

 

[Yoder]

Companies don’t spend billions on marketing strategies and inferior products that don’t last if it wasn’t profitable….

Kinda sad actually to think of the number of people who are convinced and sold that many of there “needs” are truly “wants”.


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The amount of waste is staggering. One statistic that is crazy. They manufacture around 120 billion pieces of clothing per year for 8 billion people. Some countries in Africa are getting hundreds of thousands clothes a week. They have so many they end up in the ocean. Clothing a couple feet deep littering the beaches. Stop "donating" clothes. Most end up in the ocean.

 

[ddavis_1313]

The amount of waste is staggering. One statistic that is crazy. They manufacture around 120 billion pieces of clothing per year for 8 billion people. Some countries in Africa are getting hundreds of thousands clothes a week. They have so many they end up in the ocean. Clothing a couple feet deep littering the beaches. Stop "donating" clothes. Most end up in the ocean.

That’s a crazy statistic!


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[tony]

The amount of waste is staggering. One statistic that is crazy. They manufacture around 120 billion pieces of clothing per year for 8 billion people. Some countries in Africa are getting hundreds of thousands clothes a week. They have so many they end up in the ocean. Clothing a couple feet deep littering the beaches. Stop "donating" clothes. Most end up in the ocean.

What do you do with old clothes thought?
I try to recycle everything I can. But recycling is a racket as well. Only want things that bring in money.

 

[SWOHTR]

I’ve never been a fan of consumerism.

 

[stonewall]

Turn clothes into archery bag targets

 

[KyleR1985]

I buy used gear on Rokslide to save the planet. Not to save money.

 

[Yoder]

I don't even know

What do you do with old clothes thought?
I try to recycle everything I can. But recycling is a racket as well. Only want things that bring in money.

I don't even know. I always thought I was helping people by donating them. I felt almost sick watching that documentary. It looks pretty hopeless.

 

[pacoalcracker]

Well, between all of the Asian garment workers you likely have 250 million workers......got to keep them employed making something. Would you rather they be making bombs to be lobed at the States? Ah, lets just keep buying those cheap shirts and shoes.

 

[Boarmaster]

When I was a kid I knew a guy that had some kind of loom and made rugs out of old clothes. Those rugs lasted for decades.

 

[MTPipeliner]

Our local thrift store is 80% clothes, I went in one day to get some rags to fill a punching bag, they sell rags by the garbage sack full. When I got home and opened the bag it was good, decent t shirts, sweat shirts, etc, they were mostly sports shirts from the next town over and I got the impression that they hadn’t even opened the bag when they were donated.

I try to do my part by wearing my favorite sweatshirts until they fall apart despite my wife’s protests.

 

[2531usmc]

Companies don’t spend billions on marketing strategies and inferior products that don’t last if it wasn’t profitable….

Kinda sad actually to think of the number of people who are convinced and sold that many of there “needs” are truly “wants”.


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It’s also interesting to note that almost none of the commercial media outlets would touch this because of pushback from their advertisers

 

[5MilesBack]

That video looks just like the movie "Idiocracy". We've already mostly morphed into that movie on the intellectual scale as a society, might as well add the garbage in as well.

 

[Jskaanland]

I buy used gear on Rokslide to save the planet. Not to save money.

That's what I tell my wife. I also buy skis used... to save the planet. Anyone got some 181cm msp 99s they're looking to unload for cheap?

 

[ericacymcdonald]

I use these bags for archery targets, fill them with old clothes and they work great https://thirdhandarchery.com/product.asp?PRODID=9

 

[roadrunner]

I've been involved in a few discussions recently that started with Trumps proposed tariffs. The leaders of the USA made a conscious decision to move manufacturing off-shore to exploit the much lower labor costs. Part of that was the creation of consumerism and "disposable " consumer goods. It's an incredible waste of resources and a huge source of pollution.

If more manufacturing comes home to the USA, we can expect a doubling in price.

Only way to keep prices low is for everyone to take a paycut...