Copy of a short article to be published in the local newsletter/magazine'Knowledge', part of the regular 'Green Scene' series I write. This one's on the theme of clothes - topical give my recent blog entry on rising food and clothes prices the other day.
Money-saving, no cost or low cost ideas for being green:
*buy second-hand and where affordable buy clothes made from natural and ecological or recycled materials
*put old clothes to new uses and turn into draft excluders, cleaning rags, a patchwork quilt/blanket, furniture stuffing...
*take old clothes to charity shops and good quality recycling schemes like Oxfam, Scope
*think through what you are buying: Do you really need it? Will the item last well?
*don’t wash clothes at 50 degrees, cut the temperature down to 40 or 30 degrees – some detergents are designed to clean well at even 15 degrees
*think about whether what you are buying has been made by oppressed, abused, extreme low paid, slave and/or child labour – ask shops questions and if they don’t satisfy you then buy elsewhere
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