Turning Textile Waste Into Stronger Packaging Paper

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Millions of tons of clothing end up in landfills every year (Credit: Earth.org/ CC-BY-SA-2.0)

Fast fashion has made clothing cheaper than ever, but at a high environmental cost. Earth.org estimates that about 92 million tons of unwanted clothing end up in landfills every year. That is the equivalent of a garbage truck full of clothes being dumped every second. Thomas Harter and his team at Austria's Graz University of Technology hope to help reduce this waste by using discarded clothes to create stronger packaging material.

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