Zero Waste Podcast 3: Charity Shops & Clothes Swaps

In a consumer culture, clothes generate cash. The UK fashion industry brings in over 20 billion pounds every year. Fashion changes and we keep buying. New clothes make us feel good, we need clothes to keep warm. There are many ways to justify our spending habits but what about the clothes that no longer cut it on the catwalk?

I visited Changeworks, Leith to find out how can we reduce, reuse and recycle clothes in Edinburgh. I put reuse in to practice at a clothes swap party at Sofi’s bar in the Shore. Can you really recycle your underwear? Were men spotted swapping kilts in Leith in the name of sustainability? All this and more in our latest Zero Waste Podcast:

 

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Here are some photos I took at Sofi’s Clothes Swap Party:

You can find your nearest charity show on The Edinburgh Charity Shop and Reuse Map. It's free to download or you can pick up a paper copy from Changeworks or at most local charity shops.

The Zero Waste Podcast series is produced by Emily Dodd for Greener Leith and funded by City of Edinburgh Council Waste Action Grants, Vegware and Changeworks. 

The theme tune for the podcast was brought to you by Waste Action Grant funded project, Trash Arts.