Where does the stuff we don't want go? Used to think old clothes ended up in places like Goodwill. And having been in the magazine biz, knew some magazines without time-sensitive info (like porn) are shipped overseas but believed the rest occupied our landfills.

Never would have imagined 6-yr old copies of Time being sold on the streets of Nairobi... & those copies being bought by women wearing my old clothes.

Can't tell you how many times thought "I used to have that sweater" or laughed at a man wearing an old high school cheerleading jacket. And for my UofI grad friends, seems all your old stuff ended up in Ethiopia.

Probably saw 20,000 Kadak bags in Yemen. Guess Kodak got a ton of misspelled bags & dumped 'em where they thought no one would notice.

But on a sad & serious note, we're also selling our old computers & cell phones to the 3rd world where people who are paid pennies a day pick out the miniscule bits of copper. Then the rest is burned... emitting toxic fumes into the atmosphere & seriously harming these peoples' lungs. And it's not just electronics... it's all the things we never think of. The shores of Bangladesh are covered with the skeletons of our retired freighters & cruise ships.

Maybe we'll learn something from the banking scandal... maybe we'll realize we're all interconnected & when we allow even a few greedy individuals to continue unjust business practices it eventually comes around to hurt us all.