A Thousand Oaks shop dubbed “a thrift store with a purpose” was opened by two moms who are on a mission to save secondhand clothing from the landfill.

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Each year, millions of tons of clothes wind up discarded in donation bins or, worse, the trash. A chunk of the clothing that gets donated or tossed is often still wearable — save for unsightly ...

Recycling used clothing back into new clothing is rare. A lot of the problem lies in the fact that our clothing is mostly not made of 100 percent natural fibers; many of our garments are fabric ...

Why don’t more clothes get recycled? Out of all the textiles produced, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 85 percent wind up in the garbage or incinerated. Less than 1 ...

The majority of those clothes came from the European Union, China and the United States. Just a quarter of those used clothes were re-sold, with most ending up in illegal landfills.

Hint: They don’t go to the landfill. Clothing items, also known as consumer textiles, which are donated to the thrift store instead go to manufacturers of insulation, flea markets and elsewhere ...