From fashion to field: shredded cotton clothing used to help grow future crops
by Graham Readfearn from Environment | The Guardian on (#5K5BH)
Trial of diverting textiles from landfill to farm has potential to recycle huge amount' of 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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