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Throw away Britain

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Stop buying those throwaway clothes, shoppers are told by Lords
Shoppers must learn to 'make do and mend' rather than buy cheap throwaway clothes, a damning Lords report will say today.
Peers on the Science and Technology Committee called for a return to post-war thriftiness with an attack on 'fast fashion'.
They criticised the rising popularity of High Street clothes which are so inexpensive that there is no incentive to repair them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047137/Stop-buying-throwaway-clothes-shoppers-told-Lords.html

Coming from the House of Laws that sounds like a real cheek, but I agree. We do live in a throw away country as its more easy to throw out a shirt with a slight tear in it and buy a new one. I do agree with them on the issue of cloths but what of your old VCR needs repairing? The cost of the repair more than a new one, well your bound to buy a new one in that case.

Steed's second hand shoppe:rotfl:

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Originally Posted by STEED

Throw away economies also mean that the economy moves faster and further than it normally would. This is a double edged sword going on here.

-S