Inside a family garage on the Peninsula, instead of seeing parked cars, one can find bins packed with clean, used school uniforms and two busy young brothers.
Ethan and Desmond Hua are filling orders from families in need of school uniforms. They run a nonprofit called H.O.P.E., which stands for “Help Our Planet Earth.”
One of the nonprofit goals: to prevent perfectly good used clothing from piling up in landfills. Textile waste is a huge and burgeoning problem, with Americans throwing away up to 17 million tons of clothing each year…