SINGAPORE: My family used to detest my insistence on wearing secondhand clothes for the Chinese New Year.
At the time, my family hadn’t quite warmed up to the idea of me wearing secondhand clothes, and when it came to wearing it on the Chinese New Year, even less so. When we “donate” to “charity”, unfortunately, not all clothes are repurposed “for good”. When there’s an excess of donations , the wearable but unwanted clothes are exported to countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, and more.
This waste ultimately destabilises entire economies, and puts families and communities who have to deal with it in precarious economic situations.This is an incredibly big problem, of course, and the solutions required for that are big too. But in the meantime, what’s within our reach is the small. Over the years, I kept showing up to subsequent family occasions in secondhand clothes that I procured from all over Singapore, and made it a point to say that they were secondhand.
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