Textile: Waste and Mkg

textile: This doesn't include the 94mkg exported overseas, according to The Guardian. How will a domestic waste recycling industry work in Australia Read more These are just conservative figures because the sheer volume of the nation's textile waste problem is just an approximation. While this has been lauded as a step in the right direction, it does beg the question what about Australia's growing textile waste problem More than 501m kg of unwanted clothing ends up in landfills across the nation each year. Unlike glass and plastics, textile waste is not tracked by any state or federal government waste strategies or waste management plans. But you can't solve a problem unless you acknowledge it exists and then identify ways to deal with it. As evidenced by the PM's 20m commitment at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in Cairns, it would seem the growing textile waste problem is not even on the radar of either tier of government. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.