How many times do we get rid of things we have that are perfectly functional? Did you know that in the fashion industry alone:
The apparel industry is the 4th largest industrial polluter and accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
The average American sends 70 pounds of clothes to landfills every year. That’s 21 billion pounds of post consumer textile waste per year!
Less than 20% of what gets donated to charities gets resold.
And of course we get rid of much more than clothing. In Nicole Robertson’s new Swap Society article, she says “Giving things freely to neighbors instead of throwing them in the trash, and receiving gifted items instead of shopping, is the cultural shift the world needs right now. Overconsumption and excessive waste are trashing the planet.” Click here to read more! https://www.swapsociety.co/blogs/all/tales-from-a-buy-nothing-group