[Netnews-action] 13 Oct: clothing swap shop

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> From: "Catherine Thomson" <cthomson at cooltoad.com>
> Date: 9 October 2008 17:45:51 BST
> To: mcrfoe at foe.co.uk
> Subject: MFoE: Next clothing swap shop!
> Reply-To: "Catherine Thomson" <cthomson at cooltoad.com>
>
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> Spruce up your wardrobe and join in the fun by bringing a minimum of  
> three items of clothing to the SUST Swap
> Shop at 8th Day Café on Oxford Road, Manchester on Monday 13 October  
> clothes drop off 5.45-6.15pm Swapping 6.15-
> 7pm FREE if you have three items of clothing and £1 if you don't.  
> Donations also welcome.
>
> The Swap Shop is a simple way of reusing old clothes. It's a  
> collaboration between Action for Sustainable
> Living, Manchester Friends of the Earth and the Make Trade Fair  
> Society at Manchester 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'.
>
> I look forward to seeing you at the next SwapShop.
>
> Many thanks
> Wendy Allport
> SwapShop Co-ordinator
> 07989 595 327
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