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I want to donate old work shirts, but I don't want people to be mistaken for employees there. How do I remove the logos?

I have a lot of tshirts from companies I used to work for, but I don’t wear them anymore. I was going to give them away, but I’m worried random people wearing work uniforms might cause problems down the line. Some are construction companies, which I’m not too worried about, but the retail shirts are my concern. Is there a way to remove the text on them so they’re just regular solid colored shirts? I want to say the logos are screenprinted but I don’t think they were, and I can’t remember the name of any other printing processes that aren’t just stitching them in.

teft ,
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Why would it matter? Some people would find those fashionable with the logos. Send them to a thrift shop. If someone is motivated enough to get a shirt with a logo to do something nefarious, they’ll just buy it or have it made themselves.

abbadon420 ,

At my old work (a trucking company) we had a photo in the cafeteria that a colleague made in Africa during their holiday there. The picture shows a truck with our company’s logo still vaguely but unmistakingly visible on the door panels somewhere in rural Africa, Morocco I think. I think that’s pretty awesome.

teft ,
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At least you weren’t these guys:

edition.cnn.com/2015/12/14/us/…/index.html

morphballganon ,

I wouldn’t bother removing them.

PP_BOY_ ,
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Just bin em. Go into any charity shop and you’ll see that there’s no shortage of donated tees. The carbon footprint involves in removing the logos is more than it would save if someone were to wear them

Rhaedas ,

Or cut them up and use them as shop towels or whatever before you toss them. At least get a bit more out of them before they contribute to the landfill.

PP_BOY_ ,
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Most of those shirts in my experience are some poly blend. If they’re 100% cotton, they’d be good towels though

towerful ,

A lot of companies will actually have a policy about this, probably to return them

Don_Dickle ,

Maybe to personal but what companies did you work for? Because there are markets for employee clothing and depending on what or who it is they can earn you big bucks.

Battle_Masker OP ,
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I’m mostly worried about the Harbor Freight shirts, cause there’s one down the street from the clothing bin I usually drop stuff in. The construction contractors not so much cause outside of construction sites, no one really says anything about em

Rhynoplaz ,

I wouldn’t worry about it. If you don’t feel comfortable donating that stuff, then don’t, but I don’t think there’s any easy way to remove the logos without ruining the shirt.

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