Vives Flea Market
In cooperation with Kringloopwinkel
Event Details
Mission
Our Goals
Almost half of the world’s population lives in poverty, and lack of food and clean water is killing thousands every single day of the year.
There are several things you can do, for example:
• Donate money to a charity
• Donate things and clothes you do not use or need anymore
At our fleamarket you can do both! Maybe someone is happy with the book, shirt or necklace you don’t need anymore. We also donate the money we get at our fleamarket to an organization in Kortrijk. We will put a cup at our fleamarket for the donation, so everyone can put money in there, if they want to.
Our planet has provided us with a lot of natural resources. Unfortunately, we have not utilized them responsibly and currently consume far beyond what our planet can provide. We must learn how to use and produce in sustainable ways.
For helping to achieve this goal, you can:
• shop, eat and drink locally
• be conscious of packaging
• buy second-hand!
• use food sharing applications, such like ToGoodToGo
Our fleamarket is a nice opportunity to buy second-hand 😊
What to bring?
Just anything.
The only condition for the item is to be clean🧼
Helpful Q&A
Clothes
Second hand vs Fast Fashion
Fast fashion shops such like Primark or H&M attract customers with ultralow prices and a large selection of clothes. For them, that sounds nice.
But the fast fashion industry is also responsible for considerable waste. It is proved that the consumers are quick to throw clothes away.
Besides, the people who work at clothing factories are mostly underpaid and exposed to unsafe working conditions. It is often children who work there.
If you buy things at a fast fashion shop, you support these companies and they get stronger.
Online shopping
Just think of it...
The carbon footprint of buying things online is really big. The item has to be delivered to you by plane, ship and car. The small price, fast speed and convenience has a big price for our planet.
Besides, if you do not like the thing and you send it back, it is often thrown away as it would be too much effort to send it all the way back to the place where it got produced.
The effects can be seen worldwide. Products’ packaging contributes in large part to CO2 emissions from producing plastics, polluting ecosystems as well as adding enormous amounts of waste to our landfills. These materials are hard to recycle.
Black Friday?
Sorry to bring it to you...
Those are special offers that push consumers to buy more and more goods. During these shopping “events”, retailers that have monopolised the global economy such as Amazon, as well as smaller companies that are trying to keep up with this trend to stay afloat within the industry, pressure people to purchase products under the spell of discounts and limited time.
A lot of people buy something on these sale-days, because it is cheaper, not because they really need it.