RECOMMENDED: Revisiting the Craig Reucassel story from 9 years ago / 2017-2026 ⚠️ 👖 🌍

War on Waste achieved top TV ratings, spawned a hit podcast and was the ABC's most successful social media campaign to date.

Example headlines such as Craig piles up 6,000kg of clothes in Martin Place.

„In the clip, Craig builds a 6,000 kg pile of clothes that goes into landfill every ten minutes in Australia. Can you work out how many kilograms of clothing would be placed into landfill each week, month and year? Imagine how big that hole in the ground would have to be for that to fit in!" - www.abc.net.au

Backstory: How collaboration made War on Waste a multiplatform winner

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

„A recent AusPost Online Shopping Report found that 3 in 4 Australians look for sustainable alternatives when shopping online.

Meanwhile, research from the Australian Fashion Council shows that around 227,000 tonnes of discarded clothing end up in Australian landfills each year.

Worse, synthetic fabrics can take hundreds of years to break down. According to ABC’s War on Waste, Australians throw out around 6,000 kilograms (six tonnes) of clothing and textiles every 10 minutes! 

With global clothing sales projected to hit $2.1 trillion by 2025, textile waste will only continue to grow." - lasertag.com.au

 

BBC: The Price of Fast Fashion (2019)

The controversy & complexity of celebrity-driven conscious collections (2022)

 

UNSTITCHED: How the Fashion Industry is Destroying the Planet (2023)

 

Ghana: fast fashion's dumping ground | Unreported World (2023)

Fast fashion in the U.S. is fueling an environmental disaster in Ghana (2021)

dodousedclothes.blogspot.com/2024/10/ghana-piles-of-waste-due-to-fast-fashion.html

 

 

Illustration: scrg.com.au, compsositetextiles.com