Grade B clothing bales.
Wearable with light, visible wear: minor fading, light pilling, a missing button. Mixed styles and brands.
The volume grade for wholesale markets in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and for market traders selling by the piece.
Every category we supply in Grade B.
ReferenceHow we grade
Primary sorting
Collected stock (credential: as it comes out of banks and shops) is opened and separated into broad streams: clothing, shoes, bags and accessories, household textiles, and non-textile contamination removed.
Grade A, B and C
Each stream is graded on condition, style and brand into Grade A (cream / premium), Grade B (standard commercial) and Grade C (utility / low grade). Grade definitions are written into every Ragtrail contract, because the words alone mean different things to different sellers.
Tertiary sorting
Graded stock is sorted again by category (garment type, gender, age), by season (summer, winter, mixed) and by fabric, so a buyer can order exactly what their market sells: for example Grade A men's winter jackets, or Grade B children's summer mix.
Non-rewearable processing
Items that cannot be worn again are not mixed into wearable bales. Cotton-rich textiles are cut into wiping rags; the rest goes to fibre recycling (shoddy, insulation, felt). Footwear that cannot be paired or repaired is processed separately.
Full explanation: What is grade A, B and C used clothing? and How clothing sorting and grading works.