{"id":243,"date":"2018-03-17T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/?page_id=243"},"modified":"2018-04-22T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:41:10","slug":"chapter-1-dump-can-donate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/chapter-1-dump-can-donate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2: Why dump when you can donate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <span class='et-dropcap' style=\"font-size: 60px; color: #9b9b9b;\">E<\/span> very few months Breanne Littley cleans out her closet. Unwanted, outgrown or damaged childhood toys, old comforters and clothes are stuffed into black plastic garbage bags. She piles the bags into the back of her car and drives them to the closest Value Village or Goodwill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In North America donating clothes is popular and encouraged by cities like Toronto and Markham and provincial non-profits like the Recycling Council of Ontario for disposing of unwanted clothes. Littley is part of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/pub\/89-652-x\/89-652-x2015008-eng.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">76 per cent of Canadians<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who donate their unwanted clothes and other household items to charitable and non-profit organizations, according to a 2015 report from Statistics Canada that studied charitable giving by Canadians. Despite this statistic, textiles continue to end up in landfills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why do people donate?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWEvHvkkUfU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s difficult to determine the amount of clothing that ends up in landfills in Canada as there are no statistics available. In comparison, a 2009 waste study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency found that 21 billion pounds of textiles ended up in landfills in the U.S. The Council for Textile Recycling, a non-profit based in Maryland, projects the amount of textile waste to rise to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/weardonaterecycle.org\/about\/issue.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">35 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;pounds in 2019 due to mass consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the City of Markham introduced a clear-bag policy for household garbage, Claudia Marsales, senior manager of waste and environment management, said they were surprised to see not only the number of textiles being thrown away, but the types of textiles. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat we found through the clear bag system was there was a lot of textiles in the garbage and we are talking about brand new running shoes, coats and bedding,\u201d Marsales said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the increasing pressure on city garbage disposal, the City of Markham came up with another strategy to reduce the amount of household waste going to the landfill. It banned residents from putting textiles in the garbage. Instead residents can donate their unwanted textiles, including holey socks, stained t-shirts and old jackets to city-run donation bins to be recycled. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The textiles are collected from the bins by the city\u2019s charitable partners: The Salvation Army, Diabetes Canada, and STEPS to Recovery. The donations are sorted to determine if they are suitable for re-wear, reuse or recycling. The majority of the clothes are sold to Value Village. The donations that are damaged or unsuitable for reuse are destined for the landfill while a small fraction are recycled into new materials such as insulation or stuffing for car seats. &nbsp;According to Jo-Anne St. Godard, executive director of the Recycling Council of Ontario, there are minimal alternatives for diverting clothes from ending up in the landfill because of the limited ability to recycle clothing materials in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Godard isn\u2019t aware of any \u201crecycling with respect to re-pulping the fibres down to their original state and then reweaving for the use of making new textiles into clothing,\u201d happening in Ontario or even globally on any sort of scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_589\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/Resized_20180402_145230_8949.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-image-589 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/Resized_20180402_145230_8949-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/Resized_20180402_145230_8949-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/Resized_20180402_145230_8949-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/Resized_20180402_145230_8949.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This medium sized business buys rags in bulk. The rags are old t-shirts. (Photo courtesy of Josephine Abate)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Textile collection a \u2018massive revenue generator\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The collection of textiles is an important business model employed by charities to generate a good chunk of their revenue. Diabetes Canada along with other registered Canadian charities rely on selling the donations to Value Village to help pay for programming such as research and education. With more than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savers.com\/sites\/default\/files\/saversfamilyofthriftstorelocations.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">142 stores<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across Canada, Value Village, also known as Savers in the U.S., is one of the biggest for-profit thrift sellers of used clothing and unwanted household items. Every year Value Village pays Diabetes Canada $10 million for items it collects. The textile collection business alone represents one-quarter of Diabetes Canada&#8217;s annual revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s a massive revenue generator for us, in terms of contribution to Diabetes Canada,&#8221;&nbsp;Scott Ebenhardt, director of business development with the National Diabetes Trust, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diabetes Canada sells the donations to Value Village because unlike other charities such as Goodwill and Salvation Army, it does not operate retail stores. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAll of the charities are really good at collecting but we put the burden of sorting, grading and reselling on to Value Village,\u201d said Ebenhardt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They do this because of the costs associated with running retail stores. Ebenhardt doubts that another thrift player in the market could handle the 100-million pounds of donations they send to Value Village every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"size-large wp-image-253\" src=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/img_5821-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/img_5821-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/img_5821-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/img_5821-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/img_5821-1080x864.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A donation bin for Canadian Diabetes sits outside of Value Village in Ajax, ON. (Megan McPhaden)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Where do your donations go?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the moment clothes are donated to a charity or for-profit they begin a complex journey that could take them out of the country, across borders and over oceans. Clothes follow different paths and final destinations, because they are sorted and graded based on a number of characteristics including quality, type, size, gender and age group. The destination is also determined by the business model of the charity or for-profit. For-profits like Value Village&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rely on selling their excess donations because it is only able to sell approximately 20 per cent of the items put onto the retail floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the items that are unsold, the textiles that are considered wearable, are sold in large bales to different resellers of used clothing. For example, they could be purchased by graders who sort the clothing for export to overseas markets in Central America, South America, Africa and Eastern Europe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Littley, like Nayak, says she was neither aware that her donated clothes could end up in developing countries in East Africa and other parts of the world, or that the clothes have negatively impacted domestic textile industries in developing East African countries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back on the streets of Arusha, Tanzania, used clothing bears the telltale signs of the organizations that the clothes were donated to; Goodwill, Value Village and other charity and for-profits tags are still attached. These clothes were originally donated by Canadians, Americans and other citizens from wealthy <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/about\/membersandpartners\/list-oecd-member-countries.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (OECD) countries. The global second-hand clothing market is valued at $2.4 billion, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/comtrade.un.org\/labs\/data-explorer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UN Comtrade<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> data. In 2016, Canada was the seventh largest exporter of used clothing. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-image-249 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min-510x382.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min-1080x810.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Composite_tags_clothes-copy-min.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodwill, Value Village and British Heart Foundation tags show the past homes of these clothes for sale in Arusha&#8217;s Central Market. (Megan McPhaden)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The EAC represents one-quarter of the global reuse market for used clothes exported from the U.S. and Canada. The EAC blames second-hand clothes imported from the United States, Canada and other OECD countries for both inhibiting the growth of and destabilizing domestic textile industries in their countries. In 2015, the EAC responded by jointly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eac.int\/communique\/374-446-526-joint-communique-17th-ordinary-summit-of-the-east-african-community-heads-of-state\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">agreeing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to restrict imports of second-hand clothing by 2019 by increasing tariffs and potentially banning clothing imports entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Reducing our reliance on selling used clothes to overseas markets <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuse is the primary strategy for diverting textiles from going into the landfill and is partly driven by the profitability of the industry. As the import countries of second-hand clothes turn towards protecting their own textile and apparel industries and shun second-hand clothes, Jo-Anne St. Godard, executive director of the Recycling Council of Ontario, indicates that this could seriously disrupt the business models of reuse organizations like charities and for-profits.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGenerally, what happens with commodity markets when exports are interrupted, they generally try to find new recipients and I think the same is true for reuse clothing,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If exporting to overseas markets was to become unaffordable or if these overseas markets no longer allowed second-hand clothing to be imported, the majority of second-hand clothes would end up as waste in North America as the value of the clothes would reduce dramatically and the demand is low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recycling is one alternative, however in Canada only a very small percentage of clothes are able to be recycled and turned into new products such as car seat stuffing and cloth. The process of breaking down fabric is complicated by garments that are created using mixed materials like jeggings that are woven with cotton and spandex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Due to the lack of infrastructure and limited technology in Canada and the U.S., we are unable to recycle the volume of textiles that are disposed of every year. New technologies are however being developed. In September 2017, clothing-retail giant H&amp;M and partner Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), announced a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.hm.com\/sv_se\/news\/general-2017\/Successful-method-found-for-recycling-blend-textiles-into-new-fibres.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">breakthrough<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in creating technology that can successfully separate blended textiles and turn them into new fabrics and yarn. HKRITA plans to release the technology so that it will be commercially available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waste issues in Tanzania\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4pxrXcr1HGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Claudia Marsales\u2019 perspective, Canada needs to develop the textile recycling industry before it can stop exporting used clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe need local industries for the recycling of the textiles or we have to stop consuming so much,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her solution is getting the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) to classify textiles under the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/services\/managing-reducing-waste\/overview-extended-producer-responsibility\/introduction.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extended Producer Responsibility<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (EPR)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This strategy places the burden of recycling the clothes on the producer by integrating environmental costs associated with the goods into the retail price. The OECD describes <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/canada\/x\/160982\/Waste+Management\/Electronic+Waste+Regulation+In+Canada+And+Extended+Producer+Responsibility\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as \u201cprograms characterized by the continued involvement of producers and\/or distributors with commercial goods at the post-consumer stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, St. Godard says the EPR approach is challenging to apply to textiles because the life span of clothing varies since clothes may sit in your closet for months, years or even decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe other issue is the fashion industry changes very, very quickly,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;There are companies that go out of business, there are companies that get bought out by other companies. So, legacy issues need to be thought through.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This complicates the ability of the province to hold companies responsible for recycling and disposal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past, EPR was used as a solution to the issue of toxic electronic waste like from old computers and refrigerators. Consumers had next to no ability to recycle these items apart from disposing of them in landfills or at depots. Often this e-waste from North America was offloaded to developing countries where \u201ccrude and inefficient techniques were used to extract materials and components,\u201d causing environmental catastrophes in Agbogbloshie, Ghana and Guiyu, China, according to a 2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i.unu.edu\/media\/unu.edu\/news\/52624\/UNU-1stGlobal-E-Waste-Monitor-2014-small.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from United Nations University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The City of Markham has been pushing the MOECC to categorize textiles under Ontario\u2019s EPR, however there has been pushback from retailers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCompanies don\u2019t necessarily like EPR,\u201d Marsales said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently producers of clothing have no financial responsibility for recycling t-shirts and other articles of clothing at the end of their life. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPR would make the \u201cfast-fashion manufacturers responsible for looking after the life cycle of the t-shirt from manufacture to end-of-stream,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another factor St. Godard says needs to be considered is, if there is no recycling industry here in Canada, what will the money generated from introducing an EPR be used for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIs it mitigating landfill costs? Is it to develop a recycling industry? That for the most part doesn&#8217;t exist,\u201d she questioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some retailers like H&amp;M are introducing garment collecting initiatives known as closing the loop by incentivizing consumers to bring their unwanted and used clothing to the store in exchange for a discount or store credit. The majority of these clothes are sold for reuse; some are recycled, and the remainder that are unusable are sent to the landfill.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_169\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-image-169 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/img_8563-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/img_8563-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/img_8563-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/secondhand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/img_8563-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A garment collection box is shown inside an H&amp;M store in Pickering, ON. 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