When that cart is empty, it’ll be filled up with stuff tipped from a just-delivered cage, and the washing machine box will be set aside until it’s loaded onto a truck bound for Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona’s central warehouse. For almost everything, that’s the end of the line. The unsold clothing will be repacked for export to destinations around the world. But the hard goods—toys, mixers, bowling balls, planters, and everything else that constitutes the universe of what most Americans think of as “stuff”—are done. Some might get sorted out for recycling, but most everything else is
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