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How Vermonters can thrift and upcycle clothing to fight fast fashion

By Connor Cyrus,

Published February 10, 2023 at 8:57 AM EST

Huge selection of different used clothes for men, women and children on the rack in a second hand shop or thrift store. Concept of waste problem in fashion industry. — This hour, we talk about ways Vermonters can use thrifting and upcycling to keep clothes out of landfills.

The clothing industry is one of the largest polluters worldwide. Fast fashion is cheap to produce and purchase, but creates a high cost on the environment. This hour, we'll hear from thrifting industry experts on how Vermonters can lessen their impact and an environmentalist focused on mitigating clothing waste on UVM's campus.

Our guests:

Jennifer Johnson, owner of Creative Cosignments in Stowe
Stuart Sporko, owner of Battery Street Jeans in Burlington
Emma Wardell, Environmental Studies major at UVM

Broadcast live on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, at noon.

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Connor Cyrus

Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.

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Andrea Laurion

Andrea Laurion joined Vermont Public as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.

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