Almost all of the items tracked – 95 per cent – left Ireland and 60 per cent ended up outside the EU. Clothes Pods are operated by Textile Recycling Limited, a commercial operator with over 2,000 clothing banks in Ireland. The rest of the reused items successfully tracked ended up across Europe, Africa or the Middle East. [ The future of fashion: ‘Clothes banks are overflowing with crap. Clothing banks are currently not legally obliged to report where they send discarded clothing.
