What happens to clothing bank stuff ?

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We seem to generate so much clothing recycling. Things literally wear out, get stained by the kids and I wash them then out into a clothing bank.
Is it all ragged or are decent things pulled out? I just imagine people sticking their unwashed dusty stuff in. I also wonder this about all the bags you get door to door that only want quality stuff, do they actually resell it or just rag that too? Just trying to not get stained old pants?!

I give anything that is decent quality and saleable direct to a charity shop (when they are open, obviously not at the moment) and anything non-saleable I put in a clothing bank in a bag labelled "non saleable fabric recycling"

Clothing bank stuff is sorted by hand into 3 categories. Decent quality saleable stuff does get pulled out of it can be identified. Wearable (not torn, stained or ragged) that isn't sell might get sent to a developing world country and sold for a few pence there. Rags and scraps will go to fabric recycling.

The door to door bags will be sorted and disposed of in much the same way. Saleable clothes are not put into charity shops they are sold for the profit of the company, not for charity. The companies that distribute them simply on the packaging that you are giving the stuff to charity but the charities get hardly any actual benefit - barely a few pence per bag. The company is a profit-making business and the charity link is purely a marketing inducement, so it is way better to give anything actually good direct to a charity shop when you can.

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I give anything that is decent quality and saleable direct to a charity shop (when they are open, obviously not at the moment) and anything non-saleable I put in a clothing bank in a bag labelled "non saleable fabric recycling"

Clothing bank stuff is sorted by hand into 3 categories. Decent quality saleable stuff does get pulled out of it can be identified. Wearable (not torn, stained or ragged) that isn't sell might get sent to a developing world country and sold for a few pence there. Rags and scraps will go to fabric recycling.

The door to door bags will be sorted and disposed of in much the same way. Saleable clothes are not put into charity shops they are sold for the profit of the company, not for charity. The companies that distribute them simply on the packaging that you are giving the stuff to charity but the charities get hardly any actual benefit - barely a few pence per bag. The company is a profit-making business and the charity link is purely a marketing inducement, so it is way better to give anything actually good direct to a charity shop when you can.

Some charity shops where I live (mainly the independent/smaller chain ones) will take bags of non-saleable things off you too as they have weekly rag collections they get paid for, might be worth asking your local ones if you haven't already

They waste almost nothing. Even the raggy clothes can be turned into industrial wipes.

It's a low risk way of charities raising funds. The textile banks in car parks do raise fair amounts for them.

Sadly, the ones round here get raided and anything halfway good is taken. The rest is dumped on the ground.

Our council recycling takes bags of labelled rags

They get raided ahhh I know always such a mess around it and then people dump stuff if they are full.

I've given the few bits of good stuff to the school, they did a bag for school collection. They had big piles , absolutely masses collected but only got a about £150. I just don't have much stuff, let alone good stuff. We seem to wear our stuff out.