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

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?