PHOTO: Buying second hand goods has plenty of advantages – for your hip pocket, and also for the environment.
What goes around, comes around, and that’s particularly true when it comes to second hand shopping.
New estimates say that in NSW alone, $432 million was saved through heading to ‘op shops’ or similar second hand outlets – a substantial saving in our current cost of living crisis.
In their joint report ‘Measuring Reuse Activity and Impacts in NSW’, not-for-profit organisation Charitable Reuse Australia and the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) looked at the environmental, economic and social benefits of the movement to purchase second hand goods…