Media: Charity Shop World

Reviews & interviews

• The Evening Standard - Absolutely Staggering: The real fate of clothing donations

"A starkly compelling investigation into what really happens to the bags-for-life we donate. It is a book which anyone who has ever bought clothes should read."

• Independent - Books of the month
• The Bookseller - Books not to miss for September
• No Kill Magazine - The afterlife of our stuff
• Kind of Wild - What actually happens to the clothes you donate

Audio

• BBC World Service - Inside the sorting room of a London charity shop (starts at 42:40)
• BBC Woman's Hour with Clare McDonnell - The hidden world of charity shops
• BBC London Robert Elms Show - Interview with Gary Crowley (about 2:08 in)
• BBC Bristol - Interview with Claire Carter
• Garmology podcast - The secret life of charity shops

Video

• BBC - What actually happens to clothes donated to charity shops
• Fashion Declares panel discussion: Circularity, Clothing and Craft

Articles by Tansy

• EcoAge - Working in a charity shop broke my wardrobe
• The Telegraph - While volunteers keep charity shops alive, a billionaire prince is profiting
• The Stylist [paywall] - These are my top tips for finding gems this Secondhand September
• The New World [paywall] - How charity shops became a bin for fashionistas
• Vogue [paywall] - How to fix charity retail