How to Reduce Your Fashion Footprint
There are many things you can start doing to reduce your fashion footprint. Fast fashion contributes significantly, emphasising the need for more sustainable practices.
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Purchasing from sustainable brands significantly reduces your fashion footprint. Seek out brands that have effectively incorporated environmental, economic, and social considerations into their business ethos. This ensures that, as a consumer, you can confidently support them, knowing that their sustainable practices align with your values.
2. Shop Secondhand, Swap Clothes or Sell
The rise of thrifting among millennials and advocates of sustainable fashion signifies a notable change in how we approach clothing consumption, prioritising long-term environmental impact. With a proliferation of second-hand stores globally and a growing array of online platforms offering pre-owned items, there’s a wealth of options to adopt this eco-friendly shopping ethos.
In recent years, clothing swapping has surged in popularity, enabling individuals to exchange unused garments for ones they’ll actively use. Often organised within social networks, this practice provides an accessible and environmentally conscious means to update one’s wardrobe.
If you are unable to wait for a collection date with Anglo Doorstep Collections and want somewhere to take the items. There are other options, you can take your clothes to these drop off points, if you want to donate them drop them here The Donation Hub or if you would like some cash for your unwanted items take them to Worth its Weight. Both of these places are open 7 days a week and accept a range of items.
Think before you throw out your clothes! Don’t let them go to landfill. Try out the suggestions above. With all the choices something will work for you and your lifestlye to help make a difference and reduce your Fashion Footprint.
3. Donate Your Unwanted clothes/Items!
Donating clothes and household items not only provides essential resources to those in need. By giving items that are no longer needed, individuals contribute to reducing waste and environmental impact while supporting incredible charitable and non profit organisations. When you are clearing out your home, wardrobe or cupboards this is something the whole family can be involved with. Preparing donations is a great way for all ages to take part in and will help children create healthy habits to recycle and donate clothes instead of throwing them away.
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