USED for GOOD

If your home is cluttered and you’re always spending money on purchases you don’t really love or need, remember that ‘trash’ can very readily be ‘treasure’

WORDS Sarah Rodrigues

The guilt around buying new clothes has long been almost the stuff of comedy, with jokes around hiding receipts, fibbing about prices and passing off brand new outfits with a casual “What, this? Oh, I’ve had it ages.” But in recent years, the true cost of constant wardrobe updates has been thrust ever more into the spotlight, with figures demonstrating, alarmingly, just how much of an impact the making, buying and disposal of fashion has upon the planet. For example: · The fashion industry is the second highest user of water worldwide, producing 20 percent of global water waste (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 2018) · More than a third of the microplastics that enter the oceans come from wearing and washing our clothes (International Union for Conservation of…

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Mollie (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2022

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