Australia has the second highest rate of textile consumption per capita globally, but measures to address the issue are still in their infancy
Last week, the Australian Fashion Council received a $1m grant to start working with industry to reduce the country’s mountain of textile waste. It’s a sum that pales in comparison with the money on offer for recycling other products, however, and it has left some in the industry feeling underwhelmed.
Julie Boulton and Aleasha McCallion are project managers at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and co-authors of a report about a circular T-shirt that was released in March this year. McCallion says the $1m grant, when compared to other waste streams, is further evidence that the fashion industry is “consistently overlooked and underestimated, both on economic value and on how the system touches every single person”.
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