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The materials needed for recycled projects need to be as reclaimed as possible. But the best kind of recycling is when source materials to begin with are brought from secondary and re-use sources instead of newly manufactured retail sources. More recycling needs to be happening every day.
Considering every human being needs clothes to wear daily, clothes via recycling and sustainable manufacturing should be the primary point of action for a new wave of modern era recycling.
Piece goods manufacturers are hoping nobody notices that perfectly good buttons and snaps and zippers and facings, rolls of ribbon and tapes go into the round file without a chance of recycling.
Recent years have shown that economic times cannot always be relied upon to be good. Job loss statistics and the rise of the small business is no coincidence. But viable supplies of crafts materials suitable for clothing, accessories, or gift fly into dumpsters and landfills every day in our land of plenty.
The popularity of retail crafting has given birth to multiple stores and retail chains catering new mass manufactured goods for hobby and specialty crafting. Yet landfills full of discarded clothes with buttons and zippers still attached get carted and trucked to landfills every day.
But these goods at retail prices are hardly cost sensitive or sustainable. But affluent consumer spending drove up these piece goods prices and sustained practices of purchasing even from countries where human rights are not enforced.
Buying local and buying domestic has its wisdoms. The button on that doll is likely molded by a starving employee working for pennies on the dollar abroad.
The zipper on that pair of new jeans is probably one of a billion produced while its employees have no health care or are legally enforced from reproducing more than once.
Hardly known to the public is that after big sales, items deemed unwanted are quietly tossed into location remote dumpsters. Even aftermarket jobbers toss stuff they can’t sell.
The most basic and primary dynamic in Economics 101 is the cost of supplies. Supply and manufacturing are the primary costs of economics and manufacturing. The cost of five sets of buttons for a set of 5 shirts might enable the manufacture of five full shirts with existing resources in supply.
Transportation to market, shipping, marketing, advertising, and packaging are costs behind original sourcing and cost of basis manufacture.
If goods for manufacture can be had for little or nothing, an entrepreneur would be a fool to pay for goods that a little elbow grease could furnish for free.
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