You know that white T-shirt you've worn a few too many times, the one with the yellow deodorant stains?
And those pants with a rip in the absolute worst place that you're still holding onto for some reason, but now desperately want to get rid of?
Your local op shop probably won't want them. There are plenty of articles out there detailing how charity shops are regularly inundated by items they can't sell, and why this is a bad thing.
"Good quality clothing that's donated to charity shops will be sold throughout op shops in Australia, and that currently raises about $527 million [a year] for social good and diverts around 310,000 tonnes of clothing away from landfill," explains Omer Soker, chief executive of Charitable Recycling Australia.
"But if your clothing is wearable but a little bit old, what tends to happen is it doesn't sell, so it gets exported to international markets in low-income countries for 50 cents a kilo.
"Pretty much everything else — anything that's torn, soiled, really old or buttonless — goes to landfill, because there's no scalable recycling solution in Australia at the moment."
So what do you do with the clothes you have that aren't in the kind of condition someone else would pay for?
Some businesses accept clothes in any condition
Meg Gill, RSPCA South Australia's operations manager, says some shops have begun accepting old clothes or textiles in any condition.
It varies depending on the business, but "those clothes then go back to whatever supply chain they have and get shredded down and turned into fabric".
You may even end up with a voucher to use towards your next (hopefully sustainable) purchase.
The availability of programs like this will depend on where you live in Australia, so hop online and search for what's available near you.
Call your local council — they might be able to offer solutions
"[Your council] might know of small social enterprises involved in repair or other micro-scale [recycling] opportunities in your local area," Mr Soker says.
"There might be a repair cafe or something like that."
If there is something like this on offer near you — or you're handy with a sewing machine — you could drop your clothes at your local op shop post-facelift so they can still be resold.
Set up a clothing swap with your friends
The basic idea is that you all arrange to meet at someone's house with all the clothes you don't want and an op shop probably wouldn't accept.
Then you spend as much time as you need going through each other's clothes and taking anything you like, for free, and saying goodbye to clothes you don't want anymore, happy in the knowledge they're getting another life.
The person taking them might not want the entire garment, may have a vision for restoring it, or another creative use in mind.
If you're too lazy to organise this sort of thing on your own, Ms Gill says she's heard of small businesses arranging clothing swaps where people "pay a fee to enter a hall and then you all go in and swap your items with others".
Again, search online to see if this sort of thing is on offer where you live.
That's pretty much it, at least for now
None of these options are likely to make a big enough dent in the wider problem, and they're not long-term solutions.
But there is at least one attempt in the works.
The Australian Fashion Council is working on a National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme to create clothing circularity and reduce textile waste across Australia by 2030.
"The scheme would raise a levy on all new items of clothing coming into the market, and then all of that money would go to promoting re-use, education campaigns and recycling solutions," Mr Soker says.
"[This means] brands would end up funding solutions for end-of-life clothing and taking responsibility. So there is light at the end of the tunnel."
Until something like this eventuates, consumers like us can help by choosing to buy clothes that are durable and that we know we'll wear for a long time, Mr Soker and Ms Gill say.
Charitable and second-hand or vintage retailers are obviously a great way to go (although sizing options can be limited).
And if you need something special for a one-off event, you could look at borrowing or renting a fancy look.
No matter which way you go, when the clothes you own reach their expiration date, look to donate them first, and then consider the suggestions in this article.
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