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Popular Auckland op-shop making the unsaleable - saleable

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Thrift shopping is in vogue and it's widely celebrated for it's potential to keep textile waste out of landfill... opshops are experiencing a hey day - and vintage and upmarket second hand clothing stores are on the bandwagon Many of the latter choose to import stock from overseas, despite a growing problem of textile waste - in NZ about 180-thousand tonnes of textile waste is thrown away each year. One popular Auckland store is going against the grain in an effort to keep some of those clothes alive. A shop called Crushes on Karangahape Road - K Rd - takes unsellable clothing and makes it store-ready again. Co-owner Rose Hope has been doing it for 13 years now. She speaks to Emile.
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Thrift shopping is in vogue and it's widely celebrated for it's potential to keep textile waste out of landfill... opshops are experiencing a hey day - and vintage and upmarket second hand clothing stores are on the bandwagon Many of the latter choose to import stock from overseas, despite a growing problem of textile waste - in NZ about 180-thousand tonnes of textile waste is thrown away each year. One popular Auckland store is going against the grain in an effort to keep some of those clothes alive. A shop called Crushes on Karangahape Road - K Rd - takes unsellable clothing and makes it store-ready again. Co-owner Rose Hope has been doing it for 13 years now. She speaks to Emile.
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