These items often end up discarded quickly, harming the environment. In Chile, a massive landfill of used clothing from around the world keeps growing, causing damage to the environment and the ...

Greenpeace Spain placed tracking devices on 23 items of clothing and followed their journey for a year after depositing them ...

With most donated clothes exported or thrown away, experts are calling for a shakeup of how we deal with the growing fashion ...

Greenpeace Israel used GPS tags to track journeys of 24 discarded garments. Eleven joined billions of items dumped in ...

And that’s before we get to the discarding part – throwing clothes to that magical, mythical land of “away”. “Away”, in 57 per cent of cases, equals landfill. Some 25 per cent of ...

but the reality is that much of this clothing ends up in the landfill regardless. To take an organization like Goodwill as an example: About a quarter of the donated clothes are resold ...

Americans alone throw away 13 million tons of clothing every year. Most clothes are made from synthetic materials, which take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills. Making clothes takes a lot of ...

And every year, 101 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. And the trend toward fast fashion — cheap, mass-produced items that chase short-term fads — are only making us more wasteful.

Australians throw more than 200,000 tonnes of clothing into landfill each year. That’s an average of 10 kilograms of clothing per person. We can help combat Australia’s textile waste crisis by ...