Circular Economy
Aug 8, 2024
LOOK GOOD, FEEL GOOD, DO GOOD, Part 4: Manipulated by the fashion industry?
Enter into clothes shopping with your eyes wide open. Do not be seduced by the influencers and advertising. Make up your own mind about quality of fabric, design and finish.
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Jul 8, 2024
Make Do and Mend: A Response to the Climate Emergency
We’re making changes in the Green Heart shop on Gateshead High Street. We’ve opened up the back area to become a maki...
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Jul 7, 2024
Styling Hack Creates Two Weeks Worth of Outfits With Nine Items of Clothing
Having gone viral on Tiktok, Rachel Spencer's 333 styling hack has since appeared in the likes of Vogue and Vanity Fa...
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Jul 4, 2024
What To Do with Old Scooters in Gateshead - Give Them a New Life at Green Heart!
We want your unloved, unused, broken or outgrown scooters!
Drop them off at our Gateshead store (231-233 High Street...
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Jun 19, 2024
'Enough Clothing For Next 6 Generations': How We Can Slow Fashion Down
If we want to make fashion more sustainable, then we have to address the big issues of excess clothing and overproduc...
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Mar 23, 2024
Is a Second Hand Clothing Business Profitable - And Does That Matter?
Second hand fashion is no longer a taboo and wearing "charity shop clothes" is no longer an insult, it's a positive f...
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Feb 20, 2024
What to Do With Old Socks in the UK
One of the oldest pair of socks found in existence were Romano-Egyptian and made from red wool, with a split toe for ...
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Feb 11, 2024
Love Is The Most Powerful Solution to the Climate Crisis
I'm stood in a bustling crowd at a To Kill A King (TKAK) reunion gig in London, watching as frontman Ralph takes in t...
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Jan 20, 2024
'What Is #BuyNothingNewMonth?': From a Fashion Perspective
#BuyNothingNewMonth is an awareness campaign by Keep Britain Tidy, encouraging UK citizens to avoid buying any new it...
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Jan 2, 2024
Green Heart Collective Wins Best Emerging Second Hand Enterprise 2023 Award
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
Gateshead-based social enterprise Green Heart Collective wins “Best Emerg...
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Dec 19, 2023
What Could Happen if Sending Unsold Clothes to Landfill was Banned?
Imagine what could happen if we BANNED unsold clothing from going to landfill?
Well that's exactly what the European...
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Nov 18, 2023
Zero Waste Sewing Project Inspiration: Transformation Challenge
We all find ourselves daydreaming about the next sewing project we have in mind. But often the motivation wanes or an...
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