The French Ministry of the Environment has submitted a proposal to the European Union Parliament to ban export of used clothing. This step was taken as part of the government’s increasingly urgent efforts to tackle the worsening textile waste problem. According to United Nations (UN)
Australian environment minister Tanya Plibersek is mulling regulating fashion clothing from going into landfills by levying a tax. According to the Australian Fashion Council, Australians on average now purchase 56 items of garments annually, and more than 200,000 tons of apparels go to Australian landfills yearly. Nearly all discarded clothing ends up in landfill, and