According to WRAP, the waste reduction body, “a third of all unwanted clothes – 430,000 tons of them – end up in landfill, when they could be sent to charity shops or given a new lease of life”. Clothes swap parties are a great idea when you have become bored or no longer fit in certain styles, or customising your clothes to reinvigorate them with little or no extra money. All these ideas i can help with.
The WRAP report also studied the behaviour of almost 8,000 adults in Britain and found that “the average household spends £1,700 a year on clothes, second only to food and drink expenditure”. When you realise how much we spend on our clothes, you also realise how much more thought we should give our purchases. Often there is so little thought yet they are our third largest financial outlay.
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