Online Platforms that Sell Used Clothes

Many old clothes that go into the old clothes recycling bins go to incineration plants usually. Every year, 72,000 tons of old clothes are discarded in Taiwan, of which 60% cannot be exported due to poor preservation. So they enter the incinerator, and the other 25% are exported by old clothes recycling factories. The considerable increase has led to the closure of used clothing recycling plants. It damages the economic market and causes great harm to the environment. Therefore, many platforms have been launched recently on the Internet to support second-hand clothes recycling. They are hoping to protect the environment and improve the dilemma of a large amount of waste of resources.

The "Clothes Telling App" is an online clothing-changing platform where people can provide other people with clothes they don't like, exchange them for reuse, and reduce waste of resources. Founder Hong Yujie wants to make good clothes visible again. She used to run a "Shared wardrobe exclusive" in a university dormitory, and now she is working with other platforms to pilot a crowdfunding program to promote sustainable consumption jointly.

Hong Yujie founded the "Clothes Telling App,” which reduced 5,000 second-hand clothes being discarded in one year. This app system was launched in August this year. Through technologies such as clothing information transparency, smart quality grading, and precise matching of clothing, more than 120,000 clothes can be exchanged in one year, creating circular economic value in the cloud.

TWENTYTHREE was established in 2020. It is composed of a group of students from the Department of Business Administration of Taipei University. CEO Yang Changda and the students took a course on "Marketing Management Project.” Initially, it was just a class plan, but it turned into an entrepreneurial project. Starting from the pain points in his life, Yang Changda found that his wardrobe was piled up like a hill, and then referred to the American ThredUp and Sweden's Sellpy model and established the Taiwan version of TWENTYTHREE.

Introduce users to send their idle clothes to the platform for processing, and the platform will take pictures and put them on the shelves for sale. The user will get part of the reward if a transaction is generated. The “Entrepreneurship Star Draft Contest” has affirmed TWENTYTHREE since they have a strong ambition for future development and hope to improve their data and analysis capabilities.

In Taiwan, 200 million pieces of clothing are discarded in one year. "Continuous shopping and mass discarding" has become a standard. Many people do not know that 70% of recycled clothes are destroyed due to poor quality. I hope to solve this problem through different online platforms. I want people willing to buy and exchange second-hand clothes to have good channels for exchange, reduce waste, and reflect the value of a circular economy.