Old Clothes Business Ideas
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- Hayoth
We have an apparel problem
17 million tons of clothes get thrown into a landfill every year and its extremely difficult to recylcle.Some companies have been created like (rebag) and (poshmark) that allows users to resell luxury items but typically the middle of the road brands like (levis) get rejected from the resale market.
What should we do with this extra apparel?
- _niko3
I think you have a pretty good idea on how you can re-purpose the red, black and white items...
- mort_0
Start wearing cardboard?
- Nairn2
There are a load of young'uns who are way ahead of you here.
- lemmy_k0
I've been doing a lot of craft shows selling my chairs and there are usually several booths selling used clothes. Not that I have any fashion sense, but it seems to be the cool thing now. Those booths seem to do ok.
I always buy work clothes at the thrift store. I'm going to ruin them anyway.
- uan0
start a punching bag company.
- Fax_Benson0
set up a Take One, Leave One - or TOLO as the kids probably say?
- shapesalad0
Simple. Governments ban all mass cheap clothing factories. Stores like Primark are banned. Kids at school are taught how to look after their clothes. Fast fashion banned. We return to 1900's clothes style. You have one good suit all your life, you look after it.
- And plastic shoes banned. eg nikes. One good leather pair, well cared for and resoled will last a decade.shapesalad
- way longer than thathans_glib
- Would it be easy to resole a sneaker? Is suspect the labor and expense would be prohibitive.CyBrainX
- ^ I have a pair of steel toe leather boots. Resoling is $100, a new pair is $100. I don't want to be $200 into a $100 pair of boots.lemmy_k
- drgs0
>17 million tons of clothes get thrown into a landfill every year and >its extremely difficult to recylcle.
>Some companies have been created like (rebag) and (poshmark) >that allows users to resell luxury items
How are these two things related? If anything, easier to resell luxury items = more unsold new luxury items = more landfill dumping.
Introduce extra taxes for unsold clothes (should lead to negative sales) and force these companies to plan better
- shapesalad0
Shred, put in big tough sacks, use for coastal reinforcement from raising sea levels.
- utopian1
Shred and use for wall insulation.
- BaskerviIle0
End fast fashion. Ensure clothing is made to last, repairable, replaceable and recyclable.
Sell clothing on-demand:
Some online furniture stores will wait until they fill up enough preorders to justify a manufacturing run. You could do the same with clothes, rather than estimating (wrongly) the quantity to manufacture and having leftovers. Goes against the super fast turnaround time of fast fashion/trends etc. But it would be better.
- monospaced1
we should consult the communists, surely, because this reeks of socialist agenda through and through
- scarabin0
Dump all of it onto each manufacturer’s lawn
- scarabin1
Maybe you could shred it and impregnate the fibers with resin to create building materials
- PioneerDJ3030
The Levi's can be reused as denim insulation whose fibers are excellent for housing insulation. It's notably twice as expensive, but has many benefits over fiberglass insulation.