How H&M’s Recycling Machines Make New Clothes From Used Apparel | World Wide Waste 

Idk if i ever had 200 shirts to throw away

just give it to your relative if it gets to small for you

I’m always baffled by those numbers like if I spend 200$ a year in new clothes thats a lot and I’m still wearing cotton tank tops I got 12-13 years ago.

@@ifuckinghatebarking men

Ikr. I still have shorts from middle school and I'm 26. I'm still trying to save the shorts because the band is stretched all the way out.

This! I have more comprehensive cycle: 1. Brand New wow. Nth step: Rag

Same

my old clothes goes to goodwill which goes to someone i have no idea and some man will be rich asf when it could’ve gone to someone in need without a price tag

IKR

I also make them blankets or pillows for my pets or even clothes for them

and?

the point is?

@@F_M20 you know the point let's not act naive

Wow how awful

What else should do they with them? Seems like the sensible thing to do from the company's perspective.

Just shut up

@@KILLAHNINJAGaming it's true. What are you an employee? Have some dignity

True. Probably only 1% or less is recycled. Still a huge fast fashion brand

@@KILLAHNINJAGaming Its true.

Idk, I bought jeans from them, 99% was cotton and 20% of that 99% cotton was recycled cotton. At least where I shopped - there was quite a lot of clothes like these. It feels nice. As I cannot afford 150eur jeans that might last longer (or just might have higher price because of branding, depending on the brand).

I'm a woman me either

I'm an American, and no, we are all not like that. I think that I currently own about 10 shirts, that includes t's, sleeveless, blouses...total. I have a fairly small wardrobe and mostly buy quality resale and then redonate or give away to friends if I don't want it. The only things I buy new are undergarments, socks, swimwear, and some shoes. I will never buy fast fashion, for ethical reasons, especially when I can find better quality clothing through resale. If you stick with a "classic", minimalist, capsule wardrobe, in basic colors, that you can mix and match, there is no need to purchase even 20 t-shirts, let alone 200. I was taught by one of my favorite spiritual teachers to "live life like a traveler".

Maybe disposable textiles like paper towels are being counted in that figure.

Yeah there’s no way. I’ve been wearing the same 8 shirts for 5-6 years. I really like to get my money’s worth

That's simply just the most made up thing I've ever heard. Who even buys 200 shirts a year, let alone throw them away

Its gard to do that wutout restricting freedoms

That would be shift blaming towards the consumer

Getting billions of people to cooperate is not that simple

You can't make those people buy less.

It’s a logistical impossibility. Plus it would be a profit loss for the business therefore an option they will NEVER take

@@yairval9 you've never visited the women's section if you think that

Exactly! I have clothes that got holes after wearing them less than 10 times. Of course I fix them - if it is possible - but it's so sad. I didn't even buy the shirts that are "6 bucks" but normal quality for at least 20 Euros.

@@EssentialBlue I feel like it's still cheap, I don't get it why people just buy shit ton of clothes. I rarely buy clothes and when I buy them I get them off of Vinted for example, basic Nike t-shirts for like 10 bucks, already worn but in good condition. I'm not wearing them cause it's "trending" I just pick what I really like. 20/30€ or even more clothes is just basic pricing, people are just used to buying 20 clothes and b like "uh tf it's 200 bucks" yeah buy them and wear them for 10 years

durable? you all are dreaming. you know how much is the price of a yard of fabric? or, do you all know how much it cost yarn per kg? fashion brand or fashion industry or we might called fashion retails spend a lot to buy garments from garment factory. garment factory have to calculate their cost for making 1pcs of clothing. how many it cost for fabric/yarn needed x the price x the acc x workers cost x shipping cost. fabrics and yarn cost nowdays isnt cheap. many yarn mill or fabric mills have expensive price for a specific yarn or fabrics. different quality of yarn have different price. different quality of yarn have different ways of knitting and treatment. before commenting something please do your research. as someone who works in a knitting factory i felt offended.

@@F_M20 ok, i have a question! Can you try and explain to me, then, how fast fashion companies can sell clothing items for so cheap (under 10 dollars), if it “costs so much to make”? Clearly these companies are looking to make a profit (and they’d want to have high margins), so wouldn’t that mean that they’re actually paying significantly less than 10 dollars for materials, etc, for example, to make a profit? The whole definition of fast fashion is cheap clothing, so these companies cant be spending a lot of money on durable quality fabric, yet selling it for so little. Does this make sense to you?

They showed their polyester recycling machine, too. Also blended fibers are a normal occurrence in modern clothing.

I was going to say the same thing! This is a bs propaganda video.

@@micass3561 altho I don’t this this idea will be the solution in any way at least their trying. Even if the idea in itself works out it’s it’s going to consume far to much energy when on a much larger scale (which is what we would need if this idea was recycling _everyone’s_ old clothes) and it’s not going to positively impact the environment anymore unless we can get a crap ton of renewable energy. Buuut.. I think the idea is good that they are trying to recycle and we need a solution soon before the pollution gets way to out of hand. 🤷‍♀️

There's a ton of cotton and (more recently) linen blends in H&M. And rayon/viscose - from sustainable producers. Let's also not forget that cotton production is an energy hog as well, so recycling it is very important. All in all, what fast fashion I buy is almost exclusively from them. I have 7 yo H&M panties that are still great. Socks too. A +50% recycled material sweater that I spent the last 2 winters in. A winter parka that's now gonna also be 3 years old and is still just as useful as day 1. It's about buying stuff when you need it, buying recycled if you can, and then just taking care of it and wearing it for years. H&M tshirts don't look like shit after 10 wears. They look like shit after 2 years of constant wear and washing, 4+ if you take care of them better. I really wonder if using dryers is what's ruining American people's clothing that they complain so much about quality, because I don't otherwise get it.

@@beckstheimpatient4135 Not knowing how to do laundry correctly is definitely a huge part of the problem. If you don't want to hand wash and lay out to dry your cloths, then don't buy items that come with those instructions, for example. with a modern side loading washer I can get away with gentle cycle for most 'hand wash only' items, but old top loaders do a lot more friction damage, especially if you over load or don't fill with enough water. And then there's the people who just throw everything in the dryer on high heat. It only took me damaging a couple garments to realize you have to sort your laundry and that a lot of fabrics are best hung to dry, including t-shirts. My bf and I rarely need new things. Most new things I've purchased were to replace low quality stuff like cheap cotton socks and panties that wore out fast with higher quality versions, and since I moved from the North to the South, a lot of summer cloths because the climate is killing me down here. I really like 'Oh My Gauze!' brand. They're a higher quality heavier woven cotton which is more durable than knit cotton, but woven with a texture to it that still gives it some stretch and bounce. Normally I find their stuff dull because it's just solid colors, but there's a shop in Knoxville where they hand ice-dye a lot of this brand of cloths, and it's so colorful and breezy and durable.

Bingo

Greenwashing

i bet you’re chinese 🙊🙊🙊

@@thevinzicode3435 literally has nothing to do with anything

Yep... making clothes out of not plastics and making them more expensive and last longer would ruin their fast fashion business model 🙃

Unfortunately, that not how economy work. Any company will design their products to fail at short time. Looka at Dubai Phillips Lamp for example, they can make cheap durable LED lamp, but they don't make it.

But fashion is also important.

I don’t think people mostly throw away fast fashion clothes because they break but because they stop being trendy, there will always be a cheap option, and for a brand to go for better quality clothing that presumably costs more would be really hard to justify when the brands goal is for people to buy their clothes. I think we would need to give people a completely different outlook on clothes before this would work.

I've got h&m cheap clothes I bought 10 years ago, I still wear today. Not sure what you mean

In my opinion, h&m and mango like brands, even though fast fashion, are very good quality and can last a really long time. But some people just don't repeat clothes. And that's a problem

Absolutely agree with you. The fashion and cosmetic companies are disgusting

Yeah, they need to show their work: how they arrived at that 200 shirts/year number.

Celebrities. They can't wear the same thing twice without the press noticing.

Give it back to h&m don’t throw away, help the process

Duh. What did you think this was? A Hanna Barbara cartoon?

Yes, it is. But it's also a neccesary first step before scaling up production in a full sized factory.

@@moara4144 lel okay

Boycott china

XInA

And what do YOU do?

Ah yes. Comparing a companies net worth to they’re environmental expenditures. Are u perhaps one of their accountants ?

@@nadie8093 You’re asking me, someone who doesn’t even make a livable wage, what I’m doing to help the planet, that multi million/billion dollar companies are destroying? Lol

@@ggdatboi do you understand how much a billion dollars is????? Or can you just not comprehend that type of money. It’s not like they pay the people making the clothes fair wages OR the employees actually selling the products in store… it doesn’t take that much thinking power I promise lol

@@taylorb1638 LMAO oh yea I can definitely tell you never ran a million dollar + business. You’re speaking out of a place of ignorance. You’re better off keeping to your lane

I have like 4 shirts heh

Same, I have a pair of pants that's at least 17 years old and it's still in good condition although I've only used it as pajamas. But I also have a couple of t-shirts that are almost 15 years old, but those are falling apart already, but I use those while I clean my house or smt like that

Yes and when my Clothes wear out I turn them into cleaning cloths

Fabric back then was durable and affordable. That's why. They should work on their Fabric instead of recycling.

Same but I have my elementary school shirt. Makes a nice pajama shirt lol

The question is how? I doubt any population would vote for politicians that promise to put tax on them

@@roxylius7550 very very true. Fashion industry would lobby billions before letting that happen

But still its a good choice to recycle the clothing means no waste

They should start making long lasting, durable clothing again. For that to really work, we need to change public perception on fashion from ephemeral to everlasting. Men's clothing has changed very little and isn't as varied when compared to Women's clothing. Generally speaking, men's clothes tend to be sturdier and last longer on average.

Increasing taxes and regulations make things more expensive. How does that help if most people in the world are poor and can barely afford things now?

It's silly that people think that even a fraction of the clothes that are donated gets bought. It's put in the trash.

That's because you donate to non profit organizations and rely on them to deliver the donations, donate directly to orphanages and social homes

I worked in recycling clothing we use to buy it at 40p a KG bag it up then sell it on to a wholesaler and surprise that is were all the clothing goes when you put it in a charity clothing bin and charity sell there clothing to in bulk weight to them. Then they are graded in brands or waste some get sold on in bulk to sellers that sell second hand but most of the tonnes of it gets sold to another company were they will shred it or fill a shipping container full for African markets like shown in the vid but most is sold cheap for burning as working were we collect clothing off the public is a disgusting job some people are clean and neat but most are disgusting and have no moral in the way they treat there clothing and only thing for it is to burn it trust me. And charity will only sell on clothing that is in good and not worn in it all goes to the same place remember that.

Donating definitely worse than recycling. Most of the clothes get send to poor countries, for example Africa. Where it'll be sold cheap or even given for free at markets. Though there are Africans who make clothes to sell and have their own company. How can they compete with those donated (cheaper) clothes from western countries? That way poor countries never will be able to build up their own economy. (Excuse the poor English, not my first language).

Don't be an absolutist and purist. Be thankful for what little is done other than put directly into landfill. Donating to the wrong org under some misguided notion that they'll be reused somehow is still better than putting directly into landfill. Reducing consumption is the only real answer, but getting buy-in at significant levels differs from culture to culture.

But also to make new fast fashion

Everything you consume requires water and/or electricity to make.

Its a start. You have a better idea? then get off your ass and invent something.

But which used more electricity? Do make clothes "normal way" or with recycling? Do we have statistics? I'm curious.

And the consumer pays a pretty penny

The whole video is an hm ad

We can do both

@@Touchgrassplz agreed. Hence buy less then recycle what you DO buy

It's obviously fast fashion

Then those clothes will eventually end up being thrown away anyway. Buying less isn't enough to solve the issue sadly.

Us guys aren't the biggest contributor to the problem because the clothes we wear really don't go out of fashion. You can still buy vintage suits and not look out of place in business or formal setting. The problem is women's fashion which changes season to season, and year to year. So women's clothing tends not made with durability in mind, and they have so much more options than men do. If you go into a department store (If one still exists around you) There's like three times more space dedicated to women's clothing than men's.

my clothes are around 5-15 years old and never felt a need to replace them. My wife felt the need.

Agreed, it's a personal choice keep up with fashion for nothing or allocate your funds where it's more fitting like a charity or getting out of debt, or even a nice needed gift for a family member.....

I still wear the clothes that I have 15 years ago. I just take good care of the clothes that I have and they last for a very long time

Me neither! Being poor and growing up in a lower middle class family where everything was appreciated, tought me to reuse, repurpose, mend, DIY,... Maybe those people who buy new clothes every week just didn't experience that? Idk...

Why does it make it worst?

@@MarcelaMR789 Increased circulation. If you just throw-away the clothes, they'll be localised. With recycling the clothes, they'll be moving around a lot more, being more prevalent and spread-out. Couple that with factors like the fact that most of humanity lives near the ocean, and you've got a lot of people dumping microplastics into our water supply which, then, becomes part of the water cycle, spreading it even more. The only real solution is to stop using plastics.

@@MarcelaMR789 I will take a guess on why moara says it is worse. Every time a polyester garment is wash, some of the plastics comes out of the garment and into the water. Polyester is made out of plastics. The plastics in the water are microplastics. Recycled garments doesn't fix the microplastics problem.

@@MarcelaMR789 because it degrades each time you recycle it and releases more particles. The ONLY solution is more natural clothes, that are semi expensive and well made

I hate polyester

Yea really doesn't do shit tbh. It's like having a mess on the table and putting some drops of soap in hopes that it goes away just like that

The need to be in business so it's not in their best interest

Which sucks ass. But dont worry no matter how profitable their model is temporary

Not many people have time for that unfortunetly :(

You can't have cheap clothes that are also well-designed and made out of good, durable fabrics. That wouldn't be cheap clothing because you need to pay those people. Once you're within range of better clothing brands (or can afford tailor-made stuff) then you shouldn't buy H&M any more. But most people can't afford that, so they buy what they can. Go buy H&M - and take care of it. Buy the timeless classics rather than the stuff that's gonna go out of style in 6 months, and just... wear it for 3 years. Maybe in 3 years you'll be able to buy better clothes. PS: as a home seamstress, to anyone suggesting people should make their own - no - it's still expensive. Making your own is not cheaper EVEN IF you already have all the equipment you need. The fabric alone will cost more than any fast fashion - unless you buy cheap polyester, in which case you haven't fixed any of your problems, really.

The question is what counts as high quality? We got nike clothes costing up to $200 and for average person, price equates to quality. I used to think like that too until I noticed my local taylor make way better clothes for cheaper than a brand name.

@@ikmalizzatjohari6475 I think he meant those that last longer

The brand Patagonia Is your friend

@@ikmalizzatjohari6475 when you buy nike u also pay for the marketing. where they spend a huge amount of money. try buying from jack wolfskin, Patagonia. their quality is better imo.

@@ikmalizzatjohari6475 tbh, price is overrated to state the quality

@Tuy Randolph People like you are the problem.

@Tuy Randolph we'll be swimming in garbage without a solution to the environmental damage fast fashion causes. This at least is a sophisticated process that removes impurities to isolate the fibers.

@Tuy Randolph Lol you can’t be older than 12 right?

@Tuy Randolph jeez man your such a snob

@Tuy Randolph It wasn’t a comeback. It was an honest question. Also, how is “gay” a good comeback anyway 😂

H&M used to be my favorite store 8 years ago. Now it’s become some weird off fitting office vibe with no casual clothes no regular tshirts or sweaters or cardigans. Seems like the fashion stylist got fired and they hired Karen from Kmart

Right?

Yeaaap!

Looking at the thumbnail I definitely did 😂

Lmao i thought they were making ground beef

Yummy~ 😂

It is not good, this is just the culprit tryitng to convince masses of people to buy more clothes and not actually doing anything. This will result in more profit for them than what they invested and that is the whole point.

A lot of clothes that are donated also end up in second-hand or third-hand markets in third world countries. Much of the clothing that an American would give away isn't the quality that another American would want to buy for any price

Most people don’t actually end up wanting to wear used clothing. There’s more excess clothing than a need demonstrated.

@@sarahno4748 And even in the third world many clothes just end up in landfills as well. There’s way too much clothing in general. Plus shipping these clothes around isn’t environmentally friendly either.

I agree about donating unwanted cloths, but the truth is that most of the cloths donated to thrift shops and such never sell and end up getting thrown out eventually. Things go out of style or get damaged. I love thrifting, but for every one wearable item there's usually ten no one would actually wear.

It ends up in a landfill eventually though. Most of us donate. But when it’s not purchased at the thrift store, THEY then either ship it overseas or throw it away. Shipped overseas clothing piles up and is more than they can wear and then it ends up as their waste. It all ends up in the same place.

@MeDiAAiDeM stfu

I mean thrift stores function on that premise

They do in fact do that as well. They donate what's wearable, recycle what's not. And only throw away what fibers can't be recycled. They have a textile collection service that sorts through those three categories. They also will take in completely unusable fabric - like single socks or fabric scraps from home sewing.

Because people don't WANT secondhand clothing. If they did, thrift shops would be empty not full to overflowing.

@@salaltschul3604 actually in many countries it's hard to find good stuff in second hand shops nowadays, or the prices of second hand items have gone up a lot because it's become trendy to buy second hand and vintage items. Some people even systemically resell second hand items to make a profit. Unfortunately second hand and donating can become a scheme for companies to profit from as well, since nothing is for free even if it's for a good cause. Not to mention all the people who like to tell others that they only buy second hand to reduce waste, to make themselves look better - just like billionaires donating a couple of million, making a spectacle about it to "spread awareness" but that's another point of discussion lol There are so many problems with recycling and reusing, and far too much responsibility is put on the individual, but eh as long as the positives outweigh the negatives I guess it's kind of okay? 🤷

the circle of life, from sweatshop, to sweatshop

Slave labor.

Think about all the Muslims in China who are forced to work so satisfying

@@iair-conditiontheoutsideai3076 ????

@@iair-conditiontheoutsideai3076 poor muslims...its not like chinese works too

Same in post-Soviet countries, however we don't knit carpets from it😳

@@georgechertkov4140 maybe they mean make rag rugs from it? Like in the old US West they'd take rag strips and braid them, then stitch them into floor rugs.

We do that in Brazil too! If we can't donate it, we reuse it

That was how the US was during the depression. Clothes were expensive and made to last, so it was easy to use them to the last scrap. Unfortunately out of control consumerism and disposable mindset made that mentality a thing of the past here.

Egyptian here and we do that in most Arab countries too. We don’t knit them into carpets but we use them as kitchen rags and bathroom rags and for the floor too. Some are passed down when they’re too small, others are used as home clothes. I still have shirts that are 6/7 years old and they’re in great condition for home wear. I have stuff that are 6 years old but still fit me and are in great condition to go out in. If something is just never gonna be worn again but can’t be made use of, we’d give them away to people who could make use of it, either charities or far relations that might be struggling.

I don’t believe they are spending this much money on machinery without a plan.. I believe they are going through the steps & right methods to secure that the ideas they have will work spend less buy less save more

Agree, I sew those clothes, when they are worn out then I send h&m.

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Same here. I do not come anywhere near that much. Maybe $100 to $150 a year tops and half of that is socks, underwear, and bras. I wore a dress tonight that i have owned for over 14 years and i bought it at kmart. They dont even exist anymore....but this dress still does.

Ye this whole video is a load of horseshit. It's bees against honey all over again.

I don’t think they’re aiming to be solving everything.

@@MadAsianOtaku Doesn't have to solve everything, but this doesn't even scratch the surface. It's green washing, a distraction, and shifts blame from fast fashion brands to consumers. This doesn't address any on their issues, it changes nothing. Only a small fraction is able to be recycled in this manner. This requires the fiber to be one substance, but nowadays most garments are a mix of several, and cotton isn't the even the most common one anymore. So unless fast fashion brands change their production, most of their garments cannot be recycled, and will continue to end up in landfills. Lets say you have a broken faucet, water is coming out of as fast as possible, and it's going into a broken bucket. The water is getting everywhere. Even if the cracks are fixed, it's going to spill eventually. The faucet needs to be turned down, while where the water is supposed to go is figured out. Fixing the cracks wont do much in the long run. We are at the point of water spilling over, and this type of recycling is aimed at fixing a very small individual crack. 2:55 The true cost of recycling a shirt in this manner is not 18 USD, it's just what they charge. The machines require highly skilled workers to operate them. If they worked for minimum wage 137,88 kr=16.55 USD and eight hours a day and it takes three days per garment. One garment requires 3×8h=24h of supervised operation, and that would cost 24×16.55 USD=397.2 USD. The last stage takes five hours for a scarf (found an article), for a shirt a it would take longer, but lets go with the five hours. In three days the knitting machine can be operated 3×8h/5h=4.8 times, 397.2 USD/4.8=82.75 USD. Several people is needed to operate all the machines at the same time, four people work one shift (can be seen in every one of their videos) 82.75 USD×4= 331 USD. Would you pay 331 USD for a shirt (scarf)? This doesn't include the cost of electricity, insurance, rent, the machines, etc.

But if they develop the recycling process, won't they be able to create all cotton garments and recycle them?

Consumerism is driven by the private sector, not the government. If governments could plan the economy this would not be happening.

I had to do a university project about fast fashion and presented it earlier this week. This is what I found based on research: the fast fashion companies like H&M make it very easy and convenient to buy clothing due to the 4 Ps of marketing. If we wanna solve this issue, quality over quantity is an option or the way the clothing is designed should be tackled to lower demand.

@@bl3524 They go hand in hand, gov want economic growth, private sector want $. So gov will not promote policy to slow consumption.

@@marnixsiekmans8259 Do you mind telling more abt the 4Ps?

@@SunshineBBBao Product: constant design and product development taking place to drive up demand for new clothing. The quality goes down though. Price: pricing is acceptable by being quite low. Place: online platforms and stores used. The distribution makes it convenient for the customers to obtain new clothing. Promotion: discounts or usage of niche marketing strategies implemented to influence buyers that a new style is needed despite current clothing still being nearly new.

As I sit and cut up a denim lined shirt to mend an old denim sleeping bag.If I could only buy cotton, linen , silk , and wool, I would.

I literally wear my clothes out. I still have some of the clothes I had in middle school

I've given a lot of stuff to younger cousins and goodwill. But I won't throw anything away, unless it's a completely unusable pair of panties.

This "average" is so misleading. I think it is calculated with all the unsold clothes from department stores. There is no way an average American can throw out 200 tshirt worth of textile

@@bmona7550 why though?

I'd rather pay extra to cover the costs of recycling than know that a fully recyclable item of clothing ended up in a landfill.

We do the same in bolivia

Same in Turkey

Just visit Japan. lmao It's next level here.

@@roboticzamat wow, really?! Interesting :)

It's the need put upon many young people and women to be 'on trend' so they throw out the off trend clothing and but the on trend clothing

I had a colleague here in Germany. She was mockering because I weared clothes a second (...or twelfths) season. She threw away almost all her clothes every year.

Same, and that includes actual Americans.

400$ is already too much if you live in a sunny country.

@@casinoroyal93 I was aiming high just so I wasn't under exaggerating, I havent even bought much this year, and I dont have money for much anyway. But it really depends on how you buy, if you go for quality and expect the stuff you buy to last then you may end up spending more money, but your product might be good enough to last for 2, 3 maybe 6 years or longer and thats great if you actually want and need what you buy, so many people just buy stuff and never ever wear it again. People don't need to spend less necessarily they just need to change there relationship with material things and decide better if what they want actually has a place in there life and have an honest conversation about it, because some people also don't buy what they want, they buy what they can afford and then it rarely gets used, so maybe they buzz word for this could be that people need to buy more honestly.

@@casinoroyal93 lol. Also my nickname may be sonny but I lived in a very rainy place all my life.

@@flint857 funny...I rewound that part because I thought he actually meant $18,000.

@@spideywhiplash ha ha yeah I get that.

And they already recycle a TON. Their Conscious brand has been in stores for a few good years and has included recycled fabrics for a while. It's odd that they present this situation of only having small-scale recycling going on. It feels like the footage in the video is 3-4 years old.

I wonder why this has so little views/likes ✋

The idea is not to costingly recycle without machines Killing employment of skilled people like sewers, but to not consume.

Are clothes shared between people before reaching landfill or some mafias stop them from having new garment?

@@georgechertkov4140unfortunately it is cheaper to buy the used ones for a lot of people who earn less than a dollar a day in our part of the world. Most dealers select the best out of the lot for sale and the rest are improperly disposed off which end up in our streams and rivers. Very sad.

EXACTLY.

Not humans, capitalism

Shop second hand instead of buying fast fashion.

@@charjack2 I think thrift shops in most countries outside North America are very different - I'm from central Europe, where there's still a bit of a more 'mend before you toss it' attitude, as well as less consumerism (we are known for being unfashionable here), so thrift shops in general are a lot smaller. The clothing is usually in a good shape, but that also means it's often more expensive that from a fast fashion shop (I have never seen a tshirt for less than 8 dollars' equivalent). Not to mention sizes larger than UK12 are very uncommon to find (and I'm a UK16-18, so not even too extreme a size). Given all that, the time you would need to spend going around thrift shops to find even something that fits (that's not even necessarily something practical or something you like) would be ridiculous. Unless living in a very consumerist country, thrift shops are not the answer either :/

Everyone who can afford to shop at H&M can afford to shop at thrift or charity stores, which have good quality clothing at low, low prices. I just refuse to buy new, period. I've bought all my clothing 2nd hand for years and am often complimented on my fashion sense/taste/elegance. Plus such purchases support a charity or small business owner (except Goodwill of course)

We're not judging the pleople who can't afford shopping else where, we are judging the people spending 200$ in one go and wearing things less than 20 times.

I get it. Sometimes buying new is all you can find. I still buy some fast fashion but I only buy what I need. I literally have the equivalent of a grocery list when I go shopping for clothing and I only buy if the fabric is sturdy, it fits me properly, is comfortable, I can wear it with multiple things I already own, the seams are solid, and I can care for the type of fabric. I also try to avoid polyesters as much as a I can (not only is it bad for the environment, but once it mixes with sweat it smells bad. Like BAD bad). The most important thing is not to over-consume. Even people buying from thrift stores are often guilty of this but that’s the main problem regardless where you get your clothing. If you can cut down on how much you consume, then you’re taking a massive leap in the right direction (and you’ll be saving money, so that’s a win-win!)

Dont have kids - problem solved

@@doom2avatar bad healthcare => make children poor financial education => make children AS FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS rich? => make children Asia has the worst culture here on Earth. It never ends...

@@redsusoverparadise2700 the west -as soon as the birth rate plateaus => Import immigrants to make children the west has the worst culture here on Earth. It never ends...

@@Seti-ms9bs You mean the worst government in the West. The goverments do nothing in order to achieve zero population growth to stabilize inflation...

@@redsusoverparadise2700 The government of any nation is a reflection of the people. I mean the west has the worst people they want everyone's children but there own.

Thrifts shops are so cool,we don't have such shops here in India :(

Sadly a lot of donated clothes get thrown out :( thrifting clothes is a great eco friendly practice though. Recycling clothes seems like a better solution to throwing out unwearable clothes. I would recycle my clothes, but not with H&M

They are greenwashing.

But your using a iphone

Correct. Everyone need to share hasan-Minhaj's informational program of these "Recycling".

@@nasihjaseem9516 But it has changed a lot......Now waste management project is undertaken and the problem is the supply chain....

@@investigativejournalism8393 well the recycle part can continue with the supply chain

you probably commented before even watching the video. and this makes you look sooo stooopid

That skirt was fine... the electricity and labor that went into the design and machinery is more wasteful. Dear lord we’re toast.

@@briezzy365 If the electricity is from renewable resources, and labour creates more jobs and lower unemployment, we are NOT toast!

@@azeema4442 ugh, we need higher “unemployment” and people to stay home and tend small gardens and to their surrounding areas and to nurture and cultivate biodiversity.... this is a waste of a worker’s time so rich people can come to the mall and feel good about themselves.

@@briezzy365 I mean, if there is more unemployment. That means that more people can't earn any money. Then they can't pay their bills and will never have enough money to even think about cultivating their area

Me too 😂

sleep deprivation syndrom?

I started sewing 10 years ago and I Love to repair clothes, to use it in another way, to Tailor it smaller when IT doesn't fit any more,...

Sale to India, let see how many people can effort H&M product... Lol 2% citizens can effort.

Theres no way to prove or disprove this?

No, it would mean an economic collapse