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Australians discard an average of 31 kilos of textile waste per person annually, at a national rate of 15 tonnes of textile waste every ten minutes.
BY Camille Reed
POSTED February 10, 2021
ACTA’s Circular Threads project will develop a business case and design a product stewardship scheme to collect, reuse and recycle uniforms and workwear.
BY ACTA
POSTED November 12, 2020
Envisioning nature’s circular eco-process and adapting a sustainable mode of action, textiles towards net-zero emissions from production and waste is an achievable goal.
POSTED September 30, 2020
POSTED August 5, 2020
Less than one 1% of textile waste is recycled in Australia. Typically recycling textiles is a mechanical recycling process, turning garments into stuffing or rags.
POSTED July 29, 2020
It’s likely that textiles waste is the third-largest component in kerbside domestic waste, following food waste and contaminated paper.
POSTED July 17, 2020
Textiles are known to have a disproportionately high carbon impact, making improvement in this area a meaningful way to contribute to the larger state targets on emissions reductions.
POSTED June 10, 2020
During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, local businesses reported a fifty-six per cent (56%) drop in online sales and a gargantuan eighty-seven per cent (87%) drop from in-store sales.
POSTED May 28, 2020
