Recycling textile waste: 'A solution exists, we can't go backwards'

A world-first commercial plant designed to turn fabric into raw materials will also address the vast amounts of fast fashion heading for landfillAn Australian startup working on a process to recycle textiles by turning worn-out fabric into raw materials says it has funding to build a world-first commercial-scale plant in Queensland.The federal government held a first national roundtable on textile waste on Wednesday - recognition of a piling-up problem that results in Australians discarding an estimated 780,000 tonnes of textile waste each year, according to a 2020 national waste report. Continue reading...