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What Happens To The Junk Donated To Charity

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Donations of unwanted clothes keep hundreds of millions of pounds of trash out of local landfills. But, in the end, a lot of the contributions that charities like Goodwill and the Salvation Army receive are basically garbage.

From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Peter O’Dowd of KJZZ tells us what happens to the stuff that doesn't sell in thrift stores.

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This segment aired on May 15, 2014.

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