The clothing industry has the highest rate of returns in e-commerce at 30% (compared to 8-10% in brick and mortar shopping), and this value is as high as 50% in certain apparel markets, according to numbers from Shopify’s Fashion Industry Report. Aside from shipping and packaging waste, these returns themselves probably aren’t restocked and resold like you might assume. Instead, much of the clothing will be discarded as landfill or incinerated.