At a shopping boutique in Musselburgh, shoppers line outside patiently waiting to get their hands on the latest stock.

As the doors open, eager shoppers begin to looks through the rails to find the perfect outfit at a fraction of the price.

The Big Pick boutique is a shopping experience with a difference. Everything on the rails has been diverted from landfill locally and sold by the kilo at much cheaper prices.

The goal of the store is to utalise local waste, creating jobs in the process and alleviating hardship for Scots.

"We've got a huge resource, at this particular project taking in about three per cent of textile waste in the county," Simon Glover from Big Pick explains.

"Seventy per cent currently goes to landfill and of the most of it is shipped overseas and sold privately.

"We're taking a tiny amount but just with that amount we're able to provide school uniforms for free to the community.

"If someone is in desperate need, we work with food banks and crisis staff, they'll get free clothing and we're going to start to roll this out.

"As this project gets bigger, we'll be able to get more back in to the community."

The Big Pick is community led and self-funded, aiming to reuse and recycle but also help local people struggling to clothe themselves and their families.

Once a month, the shop also opens its doors to families with young children, offering each child up to two kilos of free clothing.

Reusing textiles locally can significantly help to reduce Scotland's carbon footprint.

For every one tonne of textiles which is reused, there is a 16 tonne carbon saving.

Textile production is one of the most polluting industries, producing 1.2 billion tonnes of global greenhouse gas emissions per year, more than international flights and maritime shipping.

The Big Pick is already planning to open in Leith in Edinburgh this Spring.