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The warehouse supervisor is preparing already cut rags for further export.
This rag has so far traveled over 6,000km since it’s initial donation to charity.
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of donated clothing is shipped overseas each year for sorting into rag and by-product. At what cost is the carbon footprint where a kilo of zippers or buttons can be sold for less than 5 cents and cut wool less than 20 cents after traveling 3,000km to do so?