Buying second-hand equipment has almost become a habit among students. For environmental or economic reasons, they are increasingly turning to recovery. An initiative was inspired by the phenomenon: Campus Market, a student association that encourages students to use second-hand goods in universities and on their websites.
Hermès studied engineering at Centrale-Supélec. When he arrived in his shared apartment in Gif-sur-Yvette, the apartment was not furnished, he explains to our journalist Tom Malky. ” It was gray lino on white walls, not welcoming at all. A school association organized with Campus Market a furniture sale on campus directly. We found a TV cabinet to put in the living room. »
Aliénor Quelennec also used Campus Market to find his bike. This student from Lille swears only by recovery. ” My clothes, for example, are almost second-hand. I used to buy a lot of new clothes and now I’ve only been trying to do second-hand for three years. “.
This project, born in Lille, wishes to extend to the Paris region. The founders of the association, Paul Celerier and Elsa Tossé, are convinced that their initiative can work. The first explains: Obviously, there are students who try to sell but cannot. Or just don’t take the time to do it. We come to collect at home, we keep the furniture and then we resell it at a low price when the students need it “. The co-founder adds: Our first sensitivity was the environment and we quickly realized that it had a big social impact “.
An IFOP survey reveals that 9 out of 10 young people have already bought a second-hand product and that a third of them plan to continue this mode of consumption.
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