Aid, "has given a feeling of satisfaction at having gone from a position of receiving charity to one of wealth and being able to make donations, but recovering the respect for nature and material things held by the Chinese people and the traditional sentiment of using things to their full, should also be the significance of the recycling of old clothes.
從「美援」到「台援」，除了由匱乏受惠到富裕回饋的成就感，找回中國人敬天惜物、利用厚生的傳統性情，也該是舊衣回收時潮下的本意罷。