Selling European and American clothes in poor African countries undermines local textile markets and manufacture The clothes collection operations Using distinctive wooden collection boxes in car parks, supermarkets and gas stations, Tvind collects thousands of tons of used clothes every year under a variety of names - in Europe, North America and southern Africa. The clothes are taken to regional depots for sorting. In some countries good quality clothes are sold locally, otherwise they are traded on the old-clothes market, or shipped to dealers in the third world. Volunteers, students and low-paid staff are used to collect and sort the clothes . In the United States , Tvind's main source of income is Planet Aid , which has clothes collection boxes in supermarkets and gas stations across the country.
Few people realise that when they drop clothes off, they are supporting a cult.
Planet Aid is also very active in Toronto, Canada. In southern Europe , the clothes are collected under the name Humana . Almost every country has a Humana branch, and there are literally thousands of boxes collecting thousands of tons of used clothes. Many countries have Humana shops too. In the United Kingdom , Humana no longer exists.