Donated Goods – Gone Bad
Posted on August 13, 2010 at 11:28 am
Donated Clothing
This photo was taken over a year after the 2004 tsunami. With no need for the donated clothing the government boarded up a parking lot to store it. The clothing, kept in black plastic bags, molded in the heat and humidity.
Donated Tractor
This photo was sent from J., author of Tales from the Hood.
The tractor was used until one small part went bad. The replacement had to be ordered from America. No one knew how to describe the part and it took forever to arrive. In the meantime people started scavenging parts from the tractor to use for other things. Years passed by. Now they just farm the old-fashioned way – with buffaloes that don’t need spare parts….
Do you have a photo of Donated Goods – Gone Bad? Send them to me along with a short history of what went wrong.
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Related Links:
What a Waste: Video of unusable donated medicine and machinery
A global Graveyard for Dead Computers – NYT
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Thanks for this. Saw this today and reminded me of your post :http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html?ref=technology
Mariam,
Thanks for the great link. It’s right on the money.