From fashion to field: cotton clothing shredded to help grow future cotton crops

Trial of diverting cotton textiles from landfill to farm has potential to recycle ‘huge amount’ of cotton material

There are lots of places where unwanted cotton clothes could go to escape landfill – the op-shop, a garage sale or turned into rags for tradies.

But what about shredding them and putting them back into the soil? And what if, in a world of perfect circularity, that soil was on a cotton farm?

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