The Benefits of Thrift Shopping
Aside from saving your bank account, thrift shopping is an easy way to reduce waste and become more eco. Here are the top xx environmental reasons you should start thrift shopping:
1. It reduces harmful emissions
Creating synthetic fibers and producing clothing uses a ton of energy and emits toxic gases into the environment. Clothes found in department stores are often delivered from manufacturers in other states or countries. Are all those carbon dioxide emissions worth a new T-shirt?
2. It reduces plastic packaging waste
How do you think clothes get to department stores? In dozens of boxes and heaps of plastic wrap. When you shop secondhand, you're helping to reduce the amount of waste companies produce in their large, frequent shipments of new clothes.
3. It reduces the amount of clothes in landfills
Supporting local thrift stores creates a much better alternative to landfills for unwanted clothes.
4. It reduces pesticides
Cotton is the world's number one pesticide-using crop, accounting for 16 percent of the world's insecticide usage. Buying used clothes helps reduce the amount of those harmful chemicals released into our soil.
Thrift Stores in Muncie
Goodwill
Attic Window
Vintage Shoppe
Additional Readings
Cotton Pesticides Statistics
Why Thrift? The Environmental, Social, and Personal Impact of Second-Hand Shopping
The Environmental Upside of Thrift Shopping
1. It reduces harmful emissions
Creating synthetic fibers and producing clothing uses a ton of energy and emits toxic gases into the environment. Clothes found in department stores are often delivered from manufacturers in other states or countries. Are all those carbon dioxide emissions worth a new T-shirt?
2. It reduces plastic packaging waste
How do you think clothes get to department stores? In dozens of boxes and heaps of plastic wrap. When you shop secondhand, you're helping to reduce the amount of waste companies produce in their large, frequent shipments of new clothes.
3. It reduces the amount of clothes in landfills
Supporting local thrift stores creates a much better alternative to landfills for unwanted clothes.
4. It reduces pesticides
Cotton is the world's number one pesticide-using crop, accounting for 16 percent of the world's insecticide usage. Buying used clothes helps reduce the amount of those harmful chemicals released into our soil.
Thrift Stores in Muncie
Goodwill
Attic Window
Vintage Shoppe
Additional Readings
Cotton Pesticides Statistics
Why Thrift? The Environmental, Social, and Personal Impact of Second-Hand Shopping
The Environmental Upside of Thrift Shopping
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