👖📉 Buy half as many clothes

Every year in France, almost 3.3 billion items of clothing, footwear and household linen are put on the market, more than twice as many as in the 1980s. Clothes are sold at attractive prices, so more are being bought than a few years ago. And that's not without its problems.

The manufacture of clothing involves numerous stages and processes that generate pollution. What's more, textile workers have to work in very difficult conditions.

To limit the impact of your clothes, make them last, buy less and buy second-hand more often.

Use this simulator to

find all the second-hand clothes shops, depots, recycling centres and second-hand shops in your area.

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