We saw a documentary recently (Beijing Besieged by Waste by Wei Cheng La Ji) suggesting Bejing will run out of landfill space in two years.
Apparently in 4 years, UK will have no landfill sites left.
Where will all that stuff go when the landfill fills up?
Do we really want to keep ploughing through stuff and dumping it in the ground?
We’re just asking…
Check out some of these sites. They have great info on great projects and initiatives happening all over the world to get you inspired.
Know any other ‘good’ news sites we should know about? Please paste to our Facebook so more people can get the good oil.
Looking for a rad read? Check out Brotherhood of St Laurence’s great online selection of second hand books. It’s free freight for orders of three or more, PLUS the money goes to great community programs.
Time magazine calls it one of the top ten ideas that will change the world.
Check out some great ways to collaborate, share, swap and team up together to get stuff sorted.
The Buy Nothing New Month Crew
A wicked way to get involved in Buy Nothing New Month is to hold a swap off.
Invite your mates around, but everyone brings 5 things (clothes, books, toys, homewares) they’re not using anymore.
Let the swapping begin.
You clear your house of some clutter, and everything gets something ‘new to you’.
Anything not claimed at the end of the swap off gets donated to your local charity store, like the Brotherhood of St Laurence or Sacred Heart Mission.
The Buy Nothing New Month Crew
Buy Nothing New Month isn’t Buy Nothing New Never!
Nor is it saying shopping is bad, nor that new is bad.
There are plenty of people creating thoughtful, ethically made/sourced products that are made to last. Continue reading “New aint bad. Just make it last!”
But it’s my boyfriend/wife/boss/dog’s birthday!
What about an experience people?
We’d rather an awesome experience like an outdoor adventure, a gym membership, tickets to The Wiggles (or not) over a soap-on-a-rope any day.
Plus, if you really want to give someone another ‘thing’ second hand does not mean second best. Antique jewellery anyone?
We’d love you to post on our Facebook the best ideas for giving an experience over ‘stuff’.
The Buy Nothing New Month Crew
You open it up. It looks like a jungle of material. We know.
You want something ‘new’. We know that too.
A great way to achieve the ‘new’ feeling is pluck out an item from your wardrobe you haven’t worn for ages. Continue reading “Shop Within Your Wardrobe”
Welcome to Buy Nothing New Month!
It’s that time again.
This year, welcome to the Dutchies who have launched BNNM locally, and our mates in the USA who are gearing up to launch BNNM in the States.
We were wrapped last year to have people pledging from all over the globe, from Spain, Portugal, South Africa…
We hope you have a blast, that you make mates with neighbours (a lot can happen when you knock on the door and ask to borrow a drill…) that you look at your existing stuff differently and that you get out there and spend time with your mates and family instead spending money on stuff you don’t really need. Continue reading “Buy Nothing New Month – October 2012”
