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Old 06-18-23, 06:58 AM   #5
Onkel Neal
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Originally Posted by Moonlight View Post

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rity-shop.html

If this is even half true I'm beyond appalled, only between ten and 30 per cent of second-hand donations to charity shops are resold in store. The rest disappears into a vast sorting apparatus to be graded and sold on to commercial partners, often for export.

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Well, yeah, you didn't know this? Some of it winds its way to, of course, Africa.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-...fill/100358702


I think they're trying to get their cattle to eat it or something.


Someone needs to talk to them about global warming, too.

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“In Europe, the UK and Australia, America, they think [that in] Africa here, sorry to say, we are not like human beings. Even if somebody knocked [on] your door [to beg], you cannot just … pick something from your dustbin. In this case … they’re doing this to us.”
Of course. We are doing this terrible thing to them.


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