Our life style is based so much on convenience and fashion that we don't notice how it is having a bad effect on our environment. The British Public buys nearly 2 million tonnes of clothes every year. Sadly, in this throw away society, before they are worn out we discard 60% of them. When clothes are thrown into the rubbish bin they either end up at the refuse tip or are burnt in an incinerator. Neither makes sense when you realise that generally our clothes when we've finished with them still have nearly 70 per cent of their useful life left. Something else that we rarely think about is how much water is needed to produce the raw materials from which many are made and how the chemicals used to colour our clothes can contaminate the watershed.