[whateverboat]

Donations would already be a great thing. This law makes it feasible in boardrooms to justify donations. Donations to shelters, developing countries and otherwise.

[Galanwe]

My wife worked for a cloth upcycling association (finding sustainable future for discarded clothes).

Reality is, there is just 10x more thrown out clothes in the west that any third world country on earth could need, same for shelters.

Associations distributing clothes to developing countries / shelters are filtering tightly what they accept.

In short, the vast majority of thrown out clothes in the west are just crapwear that not even the third world want. There are entire pipelines of filtering and sorting to only keep and distribute the good quality clothes.

[schubidubiduba]

So this law might significantly increase the fraction of good quality clothes that shelters get, which would be a good thing?

[jjkaczor]

That has already been happening for decades - and it isn't the "net benefit" most think it is - here is just one example - but there are dozens of similar articles that can be found:

https://www.udet.org/post/the-hidden-cost-of-generosity-how-...

[saubeidl]

You can steer where donations go with regulations. I don't see any downsides of warm coats to homeless shelters for example.

[kube-system]

Aren’t there already advantages to donating? I.e. Tax advantages, and a lack of disposal cost?

I think the reason that brands don’t want to donate is because they don’t want their brands to be associated with poor people.

[KellyCriterion]

Ive read some years ago that companies do not donate and destroy instead because of whatever wierd tax-regulation

[smt88]

What developing country do you think has a clothing shortage?

[saubeidl]

What about the poor in their own countries that might not be able to afford clothes?

[seydor]

donations are just an excuse to dump them on poor countries