[KittiHawk]

The thrift stores in my area are as busy as ever, and the online market for used clothing is huge. I get most of my clothes used on eBay or Poshmark. (Aside from swag shirts and underwear, which I buy new.) Sounds like a lot of the people chiming in in this thread are in the same boat.

The article isn't really talking about that market though, it's talking about the market for recycled textiles. If it's as cheap to manufacture new textiles as it is to use recycled material, then it's harder for recyclers to compete. If those recyclers go out of business, then rubbish clothing has nowhere to go but the landfill.