Payment card provider Visa teamed up with TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) to stage its first fashion “swap shop”

LONDON, UK; June 20, 2007.- Here are five facts about Britons’ consumption of clothing and the work of TRAID:

- British consumers buy 2.15 million tonnes of new clothing, shoes and accessories every year.

- They throw away more than 900,000 million items per year.

- TRAID operates a network of 850 textile recycling banks across the country.

- In 2006, the charity — which has shops in London and Brighton — re-used 3,500
tonnes of unwanted clothing and shoes.

- It donated funds to projects in the Philippines, Madagascar and Uganda and facilitated educational workshops with 6,000 primary and secondary school pupils in London.

(Reuters)

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