Recycling stuff you don't want!

I think charity shops are a great way of recycling. Not only are you getting rid of old things you don't want, you're also helping raise money for charity! You can also buy some great things in charity shops, I once found a wicked pair of DKNY jeans, for £10!!!! Also car boot sales and bric a brac sales are great ways of getting rid of stuff you don't want, but also finding new things as well. 

There are also some places you can go, where you take along the things you don't want, and can go around and swap them with people for something you want of thiers. It's like a trade game!

I think it's a great way of rcycling, as then these things don't get chucked away, or taken to a dump, they get used again and sold on.

Anyone agree? Anyone else who has found some nice things in charity shops?

Cool idea but mabey insead of using old clothes as clothes again mabey they could be made into something else the fabrics could be used for something else... Any ideas?

I usually send hand-me-downs to my sister, then when she grows out of them, we give them to someone else!

In the Phillippenes, people would hand down clothes until they were no longer usable, I think it was a lot poorer out there. But it seems a nice idea. A bit like my friend, who had this wonderful pair of knee-length floresent stripy socks, they have big holes in the soles, so she's going to cut the foot end off and use them as armwarmers! I think that's a pretty spiffy idea.

I reckon that's a great idea. I may do that with some of my stripy socks that aren't really up to much sock-ness anymore.

Don't you find it annoying when people buy new clothes that use all sorts of different fabrics and then after about a month, and having worn them once, they throw them away. Even if they're in perfect condition. They could've given them to somebody else, or swapped them, or /even/ turned them into something else. It's a waste really.

-shakes head sadly-

 Hi

I am pretty good at recycling clothes - I ware all my big sisters hand me down clothes!! I don't think my little brother will be waring them tho LOL x

People have had some wicked ideas !!!! the sock idea is koolio 2 - luckily i can still wear mine as they have some sock-ness still left in them! You could make old clothes into smaller clothes if they need changin a little bit, or you could cut them up into equal squares and sew them together to make a quilt or blanket - dunno random idea but it could be useful if you get cold!! I love changing and assesorising old clothes to make them look new and interesting - its good fun and you get to learn some sewing skills! Keep the ideas coming!! xxx  

When I was younger in about year three we started doing swimming lessons and I didn't have a swimming bag. My Mums a very make do kind of mum so she made me one out of my sisters old jeans and her old denim dress! it was fantastic! I haven't got it any more 'cause I'm to old now but thats recycling in a fassion sense way! LOL!        

From Saphire95

When I was at college, a few of us used to wear army surplus stuff - green jumpers and parker coats etc - we also used to cut the sleeves off old jumpers and use them as leg warmers - we also had a phase of knitting our own jumpers (even the boys!!) which was really funny - we'd all sit around writting song lyrics, knitting and helping each other with dropped stitches!! It was cool to be quirky in them days and it was pretty chilly in Bexhill

I like to draw so when I get clothes that are too big for me, I draw a character, then cut out pices of clothes and stick some blu-tak on the back! Wella! You're very own dress um' up game! And when you get bored with that! Hand it down to a younger brother or sister and so on and whe  there's no-one else to hand it to! It's time to recycle it! YEY! Charity shops are good though! I found this wicked cap for £3! How cool! I also love car boots! I love to haggle with people!

Yeah my sis seems to get all my hand-me-downs the lucky thing she can never run ot of clothes... I dont think that I could pass my clothes down to my brother though XD

i use the reycycling cloth bins a tescos 

my mum uses the recycling bins outside Waitrose 

but i cant remember the last time she used them...

 Some of my old clothes go to my sister if she wants them but if not they go in charity bags which come thorugh the door or get used as rags for cleaning etc. 

Charity shops etc are a great way of recycling clothes and I think the image of a charity shop needs to be changed  or have a different name and a more modern image so that young people are more likely to use them. Maybe not run them as charity shops but, as mentioned above, like swap shop. Also a reward style scheme should be invented for people who trade/give their old clothes to charity style shops.

Charity shops are a good way of reusing stuff that isn't wanted, but there is a free web alternative called Freecycle (http://www.freecycle.org/).

You become a member in your area and put stuff that you don't want anymore online. Then another member can decide that they could use it and they put in a request for it. You send it to them.

Totally free and totally fantastic. It has been estimated that they stop about 300 tonnes of waste going into landfill every day!!!