This Friday is “Black Friday, the big day (and the start of a big weekend) of sales, with many promotions at shops. A day also a symbol of hyperconsumption. In In this context, associations, but also Breton shops offer an ecological and responsible alternative: Green Friday.
Give clothes a third life
This is the case of Envie 35, which has partnered with several Rennes stores, in the context of the European Waste Reduction Week, to offer repair and sewing workshops. The idea, create clothes yourself from old clothes. At Trocabi, a second-hand clothing consignment store located in Rennes, workshops were organized this Wednesday and Thursday to make clothes, wallets, or even bags, from scraps of fabric or old clothes.
We feel like we used something that was discarded
“Giving a second life to raw materials rather than starting from raw materials”, summarizes Christine, busy on her sewing machine, registered as soon as she heard about the project. Next to the sexagenarian, Maurane, who supervises the making of a tote-bag, a fabric bag. “There are offcuts that had been in stock for some time. And if not, the rest are items that were not selected because they were too damaged or not in season, etc. And then, du suddenly, what my managers have allowed to set aside for these achievements. ”
And that attracts more and more customers sales consignment, according to its manager Annie Gossman. “We have more and more people who want to participate and who are interested in giving a second chance to their old fabrics or old clothes”, she confirms. “At least we feel like we used something that was discarded”, is satisfied Christine, happy to participate in an operation that refuses the “overconsumption of new products”, like Black Friday.