Clothes that are still usable will be donated to such organizations as the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, while the rest will be reprocessed to be used as insulation or fuel, the Yamaguchi Prefecture-based company said.

 

"We don't want to just sell clothes without thinking about what happens to them down the road," Yamamoto [Uniqlo spokeswoman] said. "We want to recycle clothes so we don't waste them."