At its weekly meeting Wednesday, Sustain Mizzou hosted a clothing swap for members to exchange clothing.

Leftover clothes from the event will be donated to The Wardrobe, a volunteer center downtown that sells reduced-cost clothing and is highly accessible to low-income citizens of Columbia.

Sustain Mizzou Treasurer Sam Ott said President Tina Casagrand came up with the idea at a brainstorming meeting and everyone agreed it would be a good idea.

Ott said the goal of the swap was for everyone to bring clothes they don’t wear anymore and trade them. The activity emphasized reallocating resources instead of abandoning them.

“With the clothing swap, we tried to touch on a bunch of different subjects, whether it’s energy, reducing consumption, recycling, that kind of thing,” spokeswoman Kelly Gehringer said.

Ott said the swap is just one of many ways Sustain Mizzou attempts to make its meetings as interactive as possible.

“I think it helps emphasize the idea of reducing consumption and that not everything has to go to waste and you can recycle it and make it fun,” Gehringer said.

After the meeting, a giant bag of leftover clothing still remained. Gehringer said it is good that this activity can help the community after the clothes are donated to The Wardrobe.

According to the Calvary Episcopal Church’s website, The Wardrobe, which has been in Columbia for 40 years, is staffed entirely by volunteers from a network of Columbia churches. It uses no government funding and uses profits from clothing sales to provide school supplies to children each fall.

“People can get shirts for a quarter instead of driving all the way over to Goodwill and paying like six bucks for a shirt,” Gehringer said.

Junior Thanh Le said this is the second time Sustain Mizzou has hosted a clothing swap.

“At every meeting we kind of highlight something different,” Le said. “So, usually the meeting are always fun to go to because we always do something different and interesting. So, I do like that.”

Le first got involved with Sustain Mizzou a year ago after hearing about it from a friend. She said it is fun to get involved with a variety of topics.

Among the other topics discussed at the organization’s meeting Wednesday night was the fact that members of Sustain Mizzou’s executive board will meet with representatives from Missouri Student Unions to discuss ways to make Memorial Union and the Student Center more sustainable.

“It’s a big deal because it’s one of our institutions on campus reaching out to us as a student organization saying ‘How can we be better?’” Gehringer said.

A brainstorming session during the meeting brought up ideas such as more recycling and composting in the unions, double-sided printing made available in the student center and reusable dishes becoming an option for student center dining facilities.