The country used to have factories to spin cotton into thread and there were even several textile factories producing clothes, but they've all shut their doors.

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, we are throwing away 68 pounds of textiles per person per year and donating such a staggering volume of clothes that a majority of our donations to charity have to be sold to textile recyclers who then sell more than half of our used clothes overseas, largely to Africa.

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They say the West also dumps second-hand clothes into Africa at prices that stifle local textile production.

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