44 percent of Swedish consumers said in a survey conducted in 2021 that they donate their clothes they no longer want to nonprofit organizations. Bringing them to collection containers at recycling centers reached a share of 35 percent, followed by the option of taking them to a collection container in a store.
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Svensk Handel. (May 7, 2021). What do you do with clothes that you no longer want? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 11, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1054524/usage-of-clothing-that-is-no-longer-wanted-in-sweden/
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Svensk Handel. (2021). What do you do with clothes that you no longer want?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 11, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1054524/usage-of-clothing-that-is-no-longer-wanted-in-sweden/
Svensk Handel. "What Do You Do with Clothes That You No Longer Want?." Statista, Statista Inc., 7 May 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1054524/usage-of-clothing-that-is-no-longer-wanted-in-sweden/
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What do you do with clothes that you no longer want? [Graph], Svensk Handel, May 7, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1054524/usage-of-clothing-that-is-no-longer-wanted-in-sweden/