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Lucianne Tonti on the battle to stop wasting brand-new clothes

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Today on the show, author of ‘Sundressed’ and fashion editor for The Saturday Paper Lucianne Tonti reads her piece on confronting the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of clothing condemned to landfill every year. 

The Australian fashion industry is a major cause of the 227,000 tonnes of waste clothing generated each year — much of it never worn before being discarded.

Non-profits are attempting to curb the issue, redirecting and recycling the waste clothing – but the problem lies at the source: overproduction.


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Guest: Fashion editor for The Saturday Paper and author of ‘Sundressed’, Lucianne Tonti

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