This airtag experiment just revealed the surprising truth about what happens to your clothing donations
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- Someone has put an airtag in a few sneakers and donated to a good cause
- The shoes traveled 800 km in Europe
- This experiment shows what can happen to your donated clothing
If you donate clothing to a good cause, do you actually know where they end up? In most cases not, but one Tap User decided to find out by fitting a few sneakers with a Apple airtag Tracker and see where they went – and the result was quite surprising.
The experiment was conducted by Tired.ha on tapik. She slid an airtag in a few donated sneakers and then placed them in a Red Cross collection bak in Munich, Germany.
Over the five -day period, the shoes left Germany and stuck through Austria, Slovenia and Croatia, before he finally arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 800 km from their starting location. Once there they ended up on a shelf in a second -hand store.
Moe.ha decided to follow the donated sneakers to Bosnia and Herzegovina and managed to find the store where the shoes were found on a shelf, waiting to be bought for around 10 euros. According to an employee in the store, the items were brought in by their boss, who lives in Germany.
How did this happen?
You may wonder how a pair of donated shoes ended up so far from their original location – would it not be more logical to send them to a goodwill store in the local area to be sold there?
However, the reality is more complicated. According to the website of the German Red Cross (translation), There are two different routes donated clothing that can be used. An option is the “Recycler model”, resulting in the entire content of a donation collection that is sold to a recycling company.
The other model is the “clothing depot model”, where clothing is sorted by the Red Cross and suitable items are distributed over depots and second -hand stores, with surplus pieces being sold to a recycler. This route seems to be the process that Moe.ha’s sneakers underwent. Whatever route is taken, but the proceeds go to the work of the Red Cross.
An experiment like this shows the value when attaching a tracker such as an airtag to an important item, in case you lose it. Although the shoes traveled 800 km through Europe, they could still follow them with the help of AppleS Find my app.
Hopefully all the items you lose will not go all the way so far, but if you have linked an item tracker to them, you might be able to look them up.
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