Australians buy almost 15kg of clothes every year and most of it ends up in landfill, report finds

Fashion council reveals more than a billion items arrive in Australia each year and calls for levy on clothing imports to reduce textile waste

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Australians buy 14.8kg of clothing, or 56 new items, every year, a new report has found, making Australia one of the highest consumers of textiles per capita in the world.

There are 1.42bn pieces of clothing - amounting to 373,000 tonnes of fabric - arriving in Australia each year, the report by the Australian Fashion Council (AFC) has revealed.

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