In 2021, the Australasian Circular Textile Association’s Co-Directors Camille Reed and Blake Lindley will be joined by Antony Sprigg; onboard as ACTA’s new Non-Executive Director.

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.

ACTA’s Circular Threads project will develop a business case and design a product stewardship scheme to collect, reuse and recycle uniforms and workwear.

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.

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.

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.

It’s likely that textiles waste is the third-largest component in kerbside domestic waste, following food waste and contaminated paper.

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.