{"id":4326,"date":"2019-08-26T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:56","slug":"say-no-to-new-for-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/say-no-to-new-for-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Say No to New for 30 days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><strong>Every week 11 million items of clothing end up in landfill.<\/strong> Throwaway fashion is putting increasing pressure on our planet and its people - it\u2019s unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Now there's something you can do to help. Join Second Hand September and pledge to say no to new clothes for 30 days.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_&quot;4_4&quot; et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_block_module\"><a href=\"\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_2 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_&quot;1_3&quot; et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_image_1 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_block_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_3 et_pb_column et_pb_column_&quot;2_3&quot; et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span>From growing the cotton to the dyeing process, it can take an estimated 20,000 litres of water to make just one pair of jeans and one T-shirt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To put this into perspective, it would take more than 13 years to drink this amount!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saving water is just one way you could be helping the planet and its people by\u00a0pledging not to buy new clothes for 30 days.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_3 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfamapps.org.uk\/secondhandseptember\/pledge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take the pledge at\u00a0www.oxfamapps.org.uk\/secondhandseptember<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,109,110,111],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-secondhandseptember","tag-second-hand-clothes","tag-take-the-pledge","tag-water-saving","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13752,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/13752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}