You couldn't store it inside...? In DC this would have been stolen too if you had kept it outside.

I mean a lot of people like to thing their recycling gets actually recycled too... unless it's cardboard or metal or glass or high value plastic, it's not.

Most clothes dumped at a lot of these places gets dumped overseas where it's sold to locals for pennies on the dollar. Anything after that gets buried or burned. There's a lot of waste and overproduction in the clothing industry.

Don't donate clothing, most of the time, it gets thrown away anyways. Try giving it away to people who might actually use it.