Toronto Textile Recycling buys donated clothing, and employees sort and grade each piece before the clothes are sold around the world
The garments then travel to ground level, falling into 14-foot mountains of clothing. There, more workers examine them, checking for wear and tear. The clothes are graded based on the condition they’re in. Few understand the growth of the second-hand clothing industry better than Steven Bethell, president of Ottawa-based Bank & Vogue, one of the largest used-clothing traders in North America. He moves five million garments a week through a business that operates within multiple silos, and trades to the graders located in areas like Toronto, Karachi and Dubai.
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