“Throughout the 1990’s you had high levels of what the industry calls “churning,” or the discard of used items. So Goodwill, for example, the major institution which acquires used items, saw its rates of intake go up by ten percent per year over the decade. By the end of the decade they were only able to place between five and fifteen percent of what they took into their stores. That’s how huge the discard volume had become.”

– Juliet Schor, from the book Resistance Against Empire, by Derrick Jensen.

 

 

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