News & Blogs Don’t Bin it, Repair it Share it! Facebook Twitter Pinterest Linkedin Envelope-open-text It’s official. We’re no longer mend and make do society. And here are some shocking stats to prove it. According to research collected by sustainable fashion brand Thought, most of us readily admit to being cack-handed these days: Only one-third of UK folks (36%) bother to repair ripped or torn clothes; One in four (25%) choose not to mend clothes because they say it’s easier to buy new ones; A fifth of us ‘can’t be bothered’ to make repairs with one in seven (15%) admitting to not knowing how to anyway; A third of Brits reckon they can’t do that most staple of clothing repairs – sewing a button back on. Hang your heads in shame, Brits. But it’s not just clothing… Among other, once essential tasks roughly half of us can no longer do […]
Don’t Bin it, Repair it
