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Guardian Fashion • Jan. 6, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
‘You sold it – now recycle it’: the protesters mailing worn-out clothes to the shops they bought them from
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Charity shops won’t take them. Councils incinerate them.
Retailers dump them on the global south. We’re running out of ideas on how to deal with our used clothes – and the rag mountain just keeps growing In February, a threadbare polycotton bedsheet landed on the desk of Simon Roberts, CEO of Sainsbury’s.
A “protest by post”, it had been sent by the Sheffield-based designer, maker and eco activist Wendy Ward. “I purchased this from Sainsbury’s at least 10 years ago,” she wrote in the accompanying letter.
Retailers dump them on the global south. We’re running out of ideas on how to deal with our used clothes – and the rag mountain just keeps growing In February, a threadbare polycotton bedsheet landed on the desk of Simon Roberts, CEO of Sainsbury’s.
A “protest by post”, it had been sent by the Sheffield-based designer, maker and eco activist Wendy Ward. “I purchased this from Sainsbury’s at least 10 years ago,” she wrote in the accompanying letter.
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