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Since 2007, the price of used textiles has increased fivefold. A ton of old jeans can be resold for 4,000 euros. How do our used clothes generate so much money? When we donate clothes, several options are available to us. Dropping them off at charities that give away these clothes for free. But above all, using the containers posted all over the sidewalks of France. In 2013, nearly 200,000 tons of clothes were dropped off in these metal boxes. But where do the clothes go? They are not given to the most deprived. They are taken to gigantic factories, sorted, then recycled. Some are put back on sale and others are crushed and transformed into thermal insulation. In this battle of private containers, small local associations risk going out of business. A film by Gabrielle Drean First broadcast: 20/11/2014