In honour of Earth Day, we tried out a new, zero-waste kids? fashion company called Mini-Cycle. The Montreal-headquartered mail-in consignment company has a beautifully curated selection of clothing and accessories, from baby to big kid. Their mission is to encourage families to choose high-quality, more durable clothes over the cheaper, fast-fashion brands that won’t last you for multiple kids, and aren’t as sustainable.
After your children outgrow their clothes, you send them in for store credit or cash. In this buy-back program, you can purchase from the pre-loved section or choose brand-new items, creating a circular economy. This keeps old clothes from the landfill and reduces environmental impact. 
How it works
To get started, you check their list of preferred brands and take pictures of your kids? hand-me-downs, then email them to [email protected] to see if they?ll accept them. Then they?ll email you a prepaid shipping label to print out, and you mail your items back in. A few weeks later, you should get a payout of store credit or cash, and you can pick out new items on their site. Photo: Courtesy of Mini-Cycle
Pros
If clothing stores (or even the clothing aisles of big-box stores!) are closed where you are right now, online shopping may be your only option. (Even second-hand stores like Value Village are closed in many regions.) All Canadian and US shipping is free over $50, and it feels really good, as a consumer, to support a Canadian company...