Jaidyn Kennedy
Pat and Jeans Place will host a free textile recycling workshop and used clothes swap at the Eco Living Centre in Wyndham Vale on Saturday, October 19.
The workshop will run from 2-3pm, while the clothes swap will take place from 3-4pm.
Founder Sarah Girn, who opened Pat and Jeans Place in May and regularly hosts educational textile workshops, will run the events.
Centred around sustainability, the workshop will help show participants how to use things around the house to reduce the use of cling wraps and plastic bags.
“For the environment, we are better to first use what we have, then look at recycling clothing,” she said.
Stressing the importance of recycling textiles in avoiding the negative health consequences of microplastics, Sarah invoked Dr Karl Kruszelnicki’s warning that the average 45-year-old has a microplastic volume 0.5 per cent in their brain in terms of weight.
“If we need to buy new clothing or things for the home, where possible, we should use natural fibres such as cotton, linen, wool, linen, hemp and jute,“ she advised.
While free, those who attend the workshop will have priority at the clothes swap.
Information: patandjeansplace.co.site/
