About ACTA
Australasia’s first collaborative industry association to offer and facilitate complete circularity for the fashion and textile industry.
Making it Easy
Join ACTA and gain access to Australia’s first nation-wide textile take-back scheme.
Making a Difference
Play an active role in delivering ground-breaking strategies to fully realise the circular textile model.
Making Noise
Benefit from advocacy programs driving legislative change and promote common standards.
BREAKING NEWS
We’re developing the largest textile waste data set in Australia.
Get Involved. It takes less than 10 minutes!
ACTA is collecting textile waste flows for the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. We’re excited to invite you to participate, and you will be helping to build a dataset to inform future waste policies and strategies.
Announcing ACTA’s official Position Paper & 2030 Strategy Document
A Circular Economy for Textiles and Apparel
ACTA 2030 Strategy: A Common Thread
Services
ACTA will provide you with the tools and expertise to transform the way you manage sustainable solutions for your business.
CONNECTION
Close the loop between retailers, recyclers, the charity sector and government. ACTA provides a seamless touch point for the circular management of texttiles in Australia.
RESEARCH +
INNOVATION
ACTA promotes and funds and emerging technologies to forward our over-arching vision.
STEWARDSHIP
ACTA enables brands to access sustainable practice and advance the standard of clothing recycling overall, reducing the impact of textile waste on the environment.
CONSULTING
ACTA supports members to build ground breaking sustainability programs within their organisations, meeting and exceeding optimum product stewardship standards.
EDUCATION
ACTA up-skills organisations, industry and consumers, driving the pace of change with a pioneering toolkit.
ADVOCACY
ACTA champions and drives legislative change to support the interests of our members, upgrading industry benchmarks and national standards.
Industry News
Stay up-to-date on ACTA’s work in Australia and around the world