Are you buying second hand?

l impacte de les 5000 peces

Today we want to share with you an opinion article by our founder, Marta Alberch, published a few days ago in Diari d'Andorra, about the impact that second-hand markets have on the water footprint.

In it he reflects on the last VideDressing de la Massana where around 5,000 pieces were sold or exchanged hands, the vast majority second hand.

Are we aware enough of the cost of each new shirt we buy? Do we know how many liters of water are consumed to make a new pair of trousers?

We are told about all this in this article entitled "The impact of 5,000 pieces" and which began like this:

"This last weekend, a new edition of Vide Dressing de la Massana took place, a second-hand clothing and accessories market that has ended up becoming a reference space where you can extend the life of textile pieces and improve the 'impact that this sector has on the environment. According to Greenpeace data, clothing production has doubled since 2000 and will increase by 63% by 2030. It is known that the textile industry is the second most polluting (only surpassed by the oil industry) producing 8% of CO2 emissions. And the 25% of the clothes ends up in the trash. Let's do some math."

If you want to know the calculations and the result, you can read the full article by clicking here

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