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2024.05.15
Visiting stores to use clothing collection boxes (43%)
～Compared to the survey conducted by the Ministry of the Environment, the number of clothes purchased per person per year is lower, and 75% use reuse and resource recovery as a way to let go of their clothes.
(Headquarters: Satsumasendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture; CEO: Teruyuki Kawano; hereinafter “ECOMMIT”), a company that builds infrastructure for the collection and redistribution of unwanted goods for a recycling-oriented society, has conducted a survey of clothing collection box users (43%) at the AEON MALL Saga Yamato store operated by its resource recycling service “PASSTO”. The survey was conducted among users of the collection box at the AEON MALL Saga Yamato store operated by PASSTO, a resource recycling service operated by the Company (registered users of SASSTO points). (155 responses).
The results showed that 73% of the users of the clothing collection boxes are women in their 40s to 60s, 61% use the boxes for the reason that they can contribute to the environment, and 43% visit the stores with collection boxes for the purpose of using them. The survey also revealed that, as a means of parting with their clothing, a smaller percentage disposed of their clothing than in the survey conducted by the Ministry of the Environment, and a larger percentage reused (resold, donated, or given away) or used collection services.
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