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Buying used clothes at places like the “Pretty Smart” second hand sale in Nelson is an example of everyday things people can do to reduce waste and protect the planet, environmental campaigners say.
Schoolgirl Sophie Weenink made it into the Reader’s Digest when, aged 13, she organised a beach clean up in Nelson that netted over 200kg of rubbish. Two years on, she has bought an electric skateboard, and made a habit of buying locally-produced food and second-hand clothes to try to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste. People needed to make sustainable consumer choices if they wanted to make a “real change” to protect the planet, she told citizen-led group the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum, which invited her to speak on Saturday as it discussed what people could do to mitigate and adapt to climate change.