In Australia, on average people gain around 27 kilograms of clothing around a year and 23 kilos of that goes to landfill. Second hand shops, donation bins and flipping clothes have helped to reduce the amount of clothes we find in landfill but only 10% donated which is 2.7 kilos. Nearly 5% of all landfill is made up of clothes — extremely astonishing compare to how much you see.

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Plastic based clothes breaks down in 200+ years, while generating greenhouse methane gas, toxic chemicals, and dyes into groundwater and soil. This may cause soil degradation and dyes getting into water can greatly comprise the quality of water by increasing BOD and COD, impair photosynthesis, inhibit plant growth, enter the food chain, provide recalcitrance and bioaccumulation, and may promote toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity.

 

Our plan is to reduce this waste by educating/encouraging communities on how to recycle their clothes scraps, in new funky designs that they have been able to...

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