If you return unworn clothing to Victoria’s Secret they destroy it as part of their company policy. No, it’s not just the underwear, it’s the actual clothing. Apparently, it’s Victoria’s Secret policy to “cut up some returned items so they can’t be resold – even if they’re in fine condition.”

“the wasteful corporate policy came to light after a Florida woman returned a pair of sweat pants, which had never before known the touch of human legs, only for the sales assistant to take a pair of shears to them…”

“I was shocked, because, mind you, these were $70 sweatpants, and there’s nothing wrong with them,” [customer] Marie Wolf said. “The clerk just said, ‘I know, but it’s our policy.’

Apparently, the clerk’s only mistake, Wolf said, was to cut up the clothes in front of customers, and not in a back room out of sight.” -jezebel.com

In 2010 in the Today Show it was revealed with hidden cameras that obviously worn clothing was put right back on the shelf but this policy is too far in the other direction.

$70 for sweatpants is something like a crime but throwing out clothes people can use is incredibly wasteful and should be prohibited. This is a bout as far from Reduce-Reuse-Recycle as you can get. There are so many charities that can use those items and nothing about a policy like that is environmentally sound.

Src: jezebel.com