Our obsession with newness is literally costing us the earth… the age of prudence has long since gone; in the good old days we would fix it, sew it, or super glue it back together. If we weren’t too proud to beg - we would even borrow it. Now, we spend our money on items that we don’t really need, hoard them away and when we have filled our domiciles to the rafters with … and then we tip them into the bin.

Throwing away our weight in rubbish every seven weeks, with 100 million tonnes of waste pouring into the country’s 12,000 landfill sites every year... and CD’s and DVD’s creating an additional 28 million tonnes of junk; dumping our rubbish in landfills is not the answer. Textile waste is an embarrassment too; Over 7.5 BILLION articles of clothing end up in our bins each year meaning 75% of recyclable clothes are just chucked away.

The fact that we can purchase things dirt-cheap means shouldn’t mean that we treat them like dirt. Your one off impulse buy, so called trash could be someone else’s treasures... bring it to swap, and see if someone else can make good use of it.

So for Earth’s sake do not waste what we have, swap it, remix it - but whatever you do, don’t just throw it away.

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