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A woman in a reflective yellow vest leans over a mound of garbage to point at a stack of clothes among the waste.
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Montgomery County Waste District

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Kelly Borher at the Montgomery County Waste District identifies bundles of clothes at the county waste transfer station. Waste here is taken to the landfill near Cincinnati. (Adriana Martinez-Smiley / WYSO)
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Thousands of tons of trash are brought to the Montgomery County Waste Transfer Station each day. The county's most recent data from 2014 shows that 8% of it is textile waste, including clothing. That’s more than the glass or wood waste the district recorded that same year. (Adriana Martinez-Smiley / WYSO)
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