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Rather than throw them out, you drop them in a charity box, assuming theyll go to someone who needs them. but no. in fact, that charity sells your pants and your t-shirt along with a whole lot of other clothes in bulk to a secondhand clothing exporter, a middle man, part of a billion-dollar industry. exporters then sell your stuff by the container load to places like kenya. along the way, millions of dollars are creamed off in duties -- 54 million bucks a year in the port of mombasa alone. the o...

Dollar industry. exporters then sell your stuff by the container load to places like kenya. along the way, millions of dollars are creamed off in duties. 54 million bucks a year in the port of mombasa alone. the old clothes are then unpacked and sold in parkmarket throughout the country. this low-cost clothing option has absolutely crushed the domestic textile market. some countries in africa have said, wait a minute, this is not goods for our employment situation. >> yes. >> were not going to...