I recently discovered an article about wasteful stores throwing out bags of never-before-worn clothing that they slashed holes in so that others wouldn't wear them. This story is biased towards the consumers that find this appalling but really, who would care if this was written in the point of view of the major corporations. I don't think it would even be printed, it seemed like they wanted to hide this wastefulness. The way I see the situation is the big corporations couldn't sell their stock so they dumped it in the trash because they thought it would be easier to do rather than give it to charity. They probably could have promoted their product by saying "Hey, we did something kind and donated to charity" but took the other path and wasted. The reason I think they did that was so that their upstanding brand name wouldn't be associated with charity cases which seems really cruel to me. I think that if the people in the article were really thinking, they would have taken the ripped up clothing and done cool things with it like designed new clothes. That's what I would have done at least. I don't live in NY so I can't take this prime opportunity. The people that found these bags could even start up the torn up trend again. :) CLICK HERE TO VIEW ARTICLE
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