Circular fashion: turning old clothes into everything from new cotton to fake knees
- Written by Catriona Vi Nguyen-Robertson, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
Fast fashion doesn't have to end up in landfill.Shutterstock
Australia has a fashion problem. More than 500,000 tonnes of clothing waste is sent to landfill each year. But a new way of recycling could redirect some of our unwanted textiles from polluting the environment, by repurposing cotton waste into anything from new clothes to prosthetic...
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