Category: Textiles
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How to host your own swap shop
We of Cork Zero Waste love organising swap events, we’ve held numerous clothes and plant swaps as well as board game, jewellery and art swaps! But really you can swap anything. And you don’t need to wait for us to host the next one – you can organise one with your neighbours, your friends or…
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Second hand clothes in Cork city
Why second hand clothes? Well the fashion industry is the third most polluting global industry accounting for 10% of carbon emissions (University Institute of Fashion Technology Punjab). A huge amount of excess garments are discarded each season if they don’t sell to make way for new stock – the dumped clothing can take years to…
