Unwanted clothes

[Sweetpea70]

What is your opinion on donating clothes, or taking them some where like clothes for cash? I'm asking from a environmentally point of view, not a financial one.
I've given up with Vinted, Ebay & car boot sales for most stuff. The market is flooded with over consumerism.
Thinking about cash for clothes, because at least you get something back.
Trouble is, you read about how much of it, & also items left in clothing banks, gets shipped abroad. This has caused their own local textiles businesses to collapse. I saw one article where anything unwanted ends up on a beach!
Charity shops are inundated with stuff too.
We have wrecked the planet with too much stuff...

Hasn't she discounted Vinted?

Thanks @GenieGenealogy
that's interesting but I’m trying to find an organisation here that will take donated items like the ties and turn them into something or otherwise find use for them.

I would like to avoid charity shops just sending them off for landfill if they’re not interested in them.

For kids clothes see if there’s a local baby bank you can donate to. They’ll give them out to families that are struggling to keep up with their kids growth/ change of sizes.

charity shop wise I prefer to donate to small indies. For example there’s a stall on my local indoor market that’s run as a passion project by two retirees.

No I get you. I am a former charity shop volunteer and ties are a really hard sell.

https://thesewingloftblog.com/13-creative-ways-to-reuse-mens-ties/
I like the lampshade!

I donate to a a local hospice for their shops, or bonardos.

It varies between them depending on what I have - and what they are taking.
When I want to donate- which is open, and if they are accepting donations that day.

The hospice has a shop about 1/2 mile away, one about 2 miles away ( which tends to take toys more than the other one, and a warehouse a few miles away that also accepts donations. They all have a limit as to what they can take in a day. Bonardos is also about 1/2 miles in a slightly different direction. Also has some days where it isn't taking donations but is open on a Sunday.

I used to do baby sakes/car boots with children's clothes, abd Facebook selling groups for certain branded items, but don't tend to bother will adult clothes.

There is a charity in my area called The Clothing Bank. They use donated clothes to put together clothing parcels for people who are struggling financially. They provide for people in the local area as well as posting out to people all over the UK. I like to donate to them as I know that they are going to people who are genuinely in need and not to big companies or re-sellers who are just after making a profit.

I post stuff I don’t want on the local freecycle site and it gets snapped up

My local Barnados is always accepting donations and the shop is busy too with customers. Lots of donations, volunteers, big shop, many customers. I don’t know how it works behind the scenes though.

I donate almost everything there - a few bags a month. Local Facebook first for toys - not worth trying to sell clothes ime.

@isthismylifenow Thank you for explaining that. I've often wondered where donated clothes end up. Especially damaged things that are unwearable like rags.

Freegle is the alternative. There was some sort of schism in the UK a few years back and they hived off

Most areas have a free to a new home facebook group. I do that now.