11:07am Wednesday 19th March 2008
The mantra every environmentally-conscious person recites is Reduce, Re-use, Repair and Recycle'. But how many of us do the third of these?
Saving old zips, buttons and pieces of cloth used to be the thing to do but now clothes have become so cheap, many of us simply throw away items rather than mending them. Why not buy a sewing kit and repair instead?