According to a survey among 1,185 consumers in China in 2022, around 49 percent of respondents said they preferred to give the articles they don't need to friends and family. Meanwhile, around 45 percent of respondents said they would sell the unused goods to others.
Leading ways to recycle spared items at home in China in 2022
The survey is conducted among respondents: 63.8 percent of women and 36.2 percent of men; 5.5 percent born in the 1970s, 27 percent born in the 1980s, 41.9 percent born in the 1990s, and 25 percent born after 2000.
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