Here you can find a link to previous and future swapping activities in Finland:
SWAP! – Finland’s largest clothing change event

Here you can find a link to different rental services in Finland:

Winterent

The Ateljé Clothing Rental

Vaatepuu

Ask your family members or friends if they have items they do not want to use anymore.

You can find second-hand stores in:

Helsinki

Turku

Tampere

And here you can find links to second-hand store chains in Finland:

Relove

Moody Monday

UFF

Fida

There are also some online platforms where you can purchase pre-owned clothes from:

Emmy Store

Tise

Tori

Zadaa

Vinted

Sellpy

If you do not wish to purchase pre-owned clothing, you should preferably purchase from sustainable brands. The Sustainable brand Index in Finland can help you identify them.

Here you can also read more about sustainable and long-lasting purchases in Helsinki.

We listed some sustainable fashion brands from Finland for you here:

Globe Hope

Nanso

Pure Waste

Papu Design

Ruskovilla

Mea

If you want to know more about the different ecolabels on clothing items, you can find more information here:

Ecolabels

Ecolabel criteria

Ecolabel FI

If you are not really sure how to repair your textile items yourself, there are different repair workshops in Finland you can take part in or you can find different repair instructions online. We combined a list of some workshops and instructions for you:

Restyle.fi

Aalto Repair & Rewear

Heläo Handicrafts Courses

Martat Repair Instructions

Vaatelaastari

If you need to rent equipment, like sewing machines, you can do so in some of the local libraries:

Libraries – Sewing Machines

There are also some repair cafés that are happy to help and can provide the right equipment:

Optima Repair Café

Repair Café

If you would like to give your clothing items a chance of a new owner, there are different charities that take clothing donations. Some of them even provide home collection services. You can find places to donate clothing to in Finland here:

Finnish Red Cross

Fida Secondhand

UFF Collection Points

ZARA Donation

Commu – Help Ukrainians

There is always the opportunity to give your clothing items to family members or friends.

You can also always look for swapping events or exchange markets in your region. Here is one example:

SWAP! – Finland’s largest clothing change event

If you are not really sure how to repair your textile items yourself, there are different repair workshops in Finland you can take part in or you can find different repair instructions online. We combined a list of some workshops and instructions for you:

Restyle.fi

Aalto Repair & Rewear

Heläo Handicrafts Courses

Martat Repair Instructions

Vaatelaastari

If you need to rent equipment, like sewing machines, you can do so in some of the local libraries:

Libraries – Sewing Machines

There are also some repair cafés that are happy to help and can provide the right equipment:

Optima Repair Café

Repair Café

If your clothing items are broken, have unremovable stains, or are in poor condition and cannot be fixed, it is important NOT to throw them in the mixed waste. Finland collects the end-of-life textiles separately now, in order for them to be recycled.

You can find links to collection containers for end-of-life textiles (textile waste) here:

Kierratys.info

Kierrätyspisteet – Suomen Tekstiilikierrätys

And UFF collection containers accept both, usable and non-usable textiles:

UFF Collection Containers

Information on end-of-life textiles and what can be disposed of in the containers can be found here:

HSY – Clothing and Other Textiles