6 Impacts Of Thrifting Imports That May Not Be Adverted By Fans

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YOGYAKARTA Trends of imports are now loved by many young people. This activity is in the form of buying used imported clothes sent from abroad and sold in Indonesia. Unfortunately, many people are not aware of the impact of herding imports, both in terms of economy, health, and the environment.

As is known, thrifting is a term used in the purchase of branded imported clothing which is at a low price as an alternative to shopping for new branded clothes that are high in price. Clothing purchased in thrifting activities can vary from t-shirts, shirts, pants, jackets, hoodies, hats, vests, and many more.

Although currently many are loved, threatening activities of imported clothes are illegal activities. Not only violating the law, threatening imported clothes has a negative effect felt by many parties. Some of the negative effects are as follows.

As explained earlier, thrifting fans hunt for used branded clothes at affordable prices. They prefer global branded used clothes to clothing produced by local MSMEs.

If the trend of threatening continues, local MSMEs have the potential to experience a decline in sales because they have to compete with thrifting products. Competition is not only in the realm of price but also in the quality that is only achieved with large capital.

It should be noted that the Government has banned imported activities of used clothes so far. Meanwhile, used clothing products that have arrived in Indonesia do not go through official channels, aka illegal. It is detrimental to the state.

Hunting for imported Thrifting clothes is carried out in order to pursue international branded used clothes. Whereas local brands can compete with international products that are being hunted by thrifting fans, especially in terms of quality. This situation has the potential to erode people's love for local products that have been intensified by the Government.

Trends of thrifting can also have an impact on the wheels of the country's economy. When people buy a lot of imported clothing, the convection industry in the country will find it difficult to develop. This could trigger a decline in turnover to the worsening of bankruptcy. When this condition occurs, the potential for layoffs on conventional workers will be even greater and the economy will weaken.

One of the impacts of thrifting which is quite dangerous is related to health. Whenang mushrooms were found in used clothes imported from abroad to Indonesia. The fungus polluted has the potential to interfere with the health of the wearer. The effect of whenang mushrooms on clothes has the effect ofbags, allergies, irritation, and infection. Whenang mushrooms on clothes are even difficult to disappear even though they are washed several times.

Thrifting clothes are usually imported from developed countries such as the United States, South Korea, China, and many more. The clothes are collected in various ways that are not known exactly. What is clear, these clothes can be in the form of old stocks that are buried for a long time or can be in the form of used clothes from developed society.

Many thrifting clothes are made from polyesters. This material takes a long time to decompose. Even the decomposition takes years. The Thrifting trend itself causes the accumulation of convection waste that is not sold or is no longer used considering the age of used clothes is shorter than new clothes.

Those are some of the impacts of import Thrifting. Visit VOI.ID to get other interesting information.