SUST Swap Shop

Celebrate the Fairtrade Fortnight by bringing a minimum of three items of clothing to the swap shop. The Swap Shop is a simple way of reusing old clothes. It's a collaboration between Action for Sustainable Living, Friends of the Earth and the Make Trade Fair Society at University. DID YOU KNOW that it's great if you pass on your clothes to charity shops, but that you can do even more by actually using second-hand clothes. An issue for British charity shops is that only 10-20 per cent of their clothes are actually resold in the UK. "Because new clothes are so cheap it doesn't always make financial sense to recycle. Statistics say recycling is now a declining market. But we think that it still makes sense to the environment", says Hanna Backman, a lead volunteer for the Swap Shop events. VOLUNTEERS are always needed. Turn up early to help out on the night or to hand out flyers in your own time before the event.